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Great Quotes
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African American Quotes We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule. "You're either part of the solution or part of the problem."
"My father was a slave and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you. And no fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that clear?"
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."
"Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American." "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom." "They called me 'a teacher, a fomenter of violence.' I would say point blank, 'That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice. I feel that if white people were attacked by Negroes-if the forces of law prove unable, or inadequate, or reluctant to protect those whites from those Negroes-then those white people should protect and defend themselves from those Negroes, using arms if necessary. And I feel that when the law fails to protect Negroes from whites' attack then those Negroes should use arms, if necessary, to defend themselves.'...'I am speaking against and my fight is against white racists. I firmly believe that Negroes have the right to fight against these racists, by any means that are necessary." from The Autobiography of Malcolm X "I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment." "The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights that America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans." "If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us, and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country." Inspirational Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them. -- Brendan Francis The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves ... let us be above such transparent egotism. -- Will Durant " I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced that they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another."
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Funny Quotes "Even if you fall on your face you are still moving forward" Robert C. Gallagher "One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken. Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not accept this bet, because as sure as you stand there, you're going to wind up with an ear full of cider." Marlon Brando as Sky Masterson in "Guys and Dolls" "Sir, we're surrounded!' "We are not retreating, we're advancing in another direction" "A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." "Welcome to Earth a subsidiarary of Microsoft" "Half this game is ninety percent mental." "We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." What BUSH really meant: Famous People "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty," Journalist Edward R. Murrow "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." "Opportunities multiply as they are seized." "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." "Beware of the young doctor and the old barber." Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.-- John Quincy Adams "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." "The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." "Opportunities multiply as they are seized." "An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind." Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. All that we see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream. Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute. " I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference." |
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