38 quotes found
“To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.”
“Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this "separation" may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites can enter into encounters in which they...”
“However it might go, I should have no regrets. If I should be reduced to begging in the street, then I should enjoy the feel of pavement beneath my feet and the odors of asphalt and automobile exha...”
“If the judgement makes the law and not the law directs the judgement, it is impossible there should be such a thing as an illegal judgement given.”
“A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.”
“He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.”
“All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.”
“We use the word cross in our hymns, in our piety, in our prayers, and in our pastoral language. But we use it too cheaply. We say that a person has to live with some sort of suffering in life: a si...”
“DESEGREGATE THE BUSES WITH THIS 7 POINT PROGRAM:1. Pray for guidance.2. Be courteous and friendly.3. Be neat and clean.4. Avoid loud talk.5. Do not argue.6. Report incidents immediately.7. Overcome...”
“The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls and bodies of other men (and in the process destroy themselves) for reasons neither really understands. It is the story of the perse...”
“He was not talking with US, but with his IMAGE of us.”
“I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.”
“A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.”
“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest s”
“I have had the view that cutting wages is not the path to prosperity, and one of the great myths propagated about my attitude to industrial relations is that I believe in lower wages. I've never be...”
“I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously.”
“He had to die someday too. He might do it on sheets with a six-hundred-plus thread count, but he'd die just the same. Death wouldn't forget about him.”
“The first thing you lose when you die is your motor skills.”
