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It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.
We have a beautiful program which is audacious and I really want us all to roll up our sleeves and to work at making it a success.
A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.
just because people are fat, it doesn't mean they are well fed. The cheapest foods are the fattening ones, not the most nourishing.
I was treated much better in Africa than I was treated in America. And you see, often I get letters like this: "Go back to Africa."
Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
Though I have usually posed as a Catholic, I have not done my duty for 15 years, and have not the slightest tincture of faith left.
A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.
A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.
Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!
I believe in Christianity because the Scriptures said: "The things that have been done in the dark will be known on the house tops."
Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity.
You only communicate to pass the time, or to express the emotions. Your tongue has to develop [the capacity] to speak consciousness.
I'm quite satisfied on one thing: If we had not carried out our struggle, Cambodia would have become another Kampuchea Krom in 1975.
I know how to move the people, but I know also where to stop in my own actions so that, when I strike, I shall be felt and not seen.
Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.
They talked about how it was our rights as human beings to register and vote. I never knew we could vote before. Nobody ever told us.
They wear suits, that's why they are lazy. They are servants, they are supposed to serve us. You can't build an RDP house with a tie.
The farms you live in will be yours for free. When mineworkers strike, it will be to complain that we are giving them too much money.
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature.
Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave
I would not be a Moses to lead you into the Promised Land, because if I could lead you into it, someone else could lead you out of it.
It is not enough, citizens, to have destroyed the factions, it is necessary now to repair the evil that they have done to the country.
When I die, my only wish is that Cambodia remain Cambodia and belong to the West. It is over for communism, and I want to stress that.
In our family we have always had, and still have, this understanding: the problem of each member of the family is everybody's problem.
The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.
But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.
And they will ask thee of the spirit. Say: The spirit proceedeth at my Lord's command; but of knowledge, only a little is given to you.
I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.
The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.
I would like to talk about some of the things that happened that made me know that there was something wrong in the south from a child.
Talk to everybody with reverence. Listen to everybody with reverence. Say things with reverence. You will always be happy and graceful.
The unit of every country is the family and the strength of the country is based on the smiles of the children and songs of the adults.
Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.
The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money.
[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food.
I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.
As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.
I assure you, it would be much more pleasant for me to be an ordinary voter in peaceful Chechnya than the president of a republic at war.
I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.
I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.
The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.
I offer you the remedy of Free Love as an antidote for enforced lust, and the world will have to take it before the disease can be cured.
We hope for the best, if elections are conducted like this all over South Africa we can indeed say we welcome any results and accept them.
I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Lets take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.
The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.
This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.
The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs had lived there for a thousand years. Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state.