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It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.
We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.
A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.
Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.
Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.
Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in school.
[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.
America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago.
It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.
History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.
We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.
Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.
Every austerity measure that Cameron and George Osborne make is being presented in Scotland as the English starving us.
In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.
Russia is a difficult country to deal with, but I think that American policy on Russia has been foolish in the extreme.
My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold War.
The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age.
It does you no good to see the number two or number three man in the corporation-you have to get through to number one.
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.
Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.
A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.
Friendship of a kind that cannot easily be reversed tomorrow must have its roots in common interests and shared beliefs.
A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.
The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.
The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
Lincoln sees slavery in some ways as a theft of labor. A slave is a laborer who is being denied the fruits of his labor.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.
No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.
There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.
I'm always wary of the lessons of the past. There's a lot of past out there, and you can draw whatever lessons you want.
More than Nixon or any other 20th-century president, Clinton has devoted his life to winning and keeping the presidency.
In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist.
Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.
For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.