“"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding up on the third shift at Flagg-Utica." Flagg-Utica was a local textile plant. Somehow, I never could figure how failing to read three chapters in my geography book about the various sorts of vegetation to be found in a tropical rain forest had anything to do with facing a life as a mill hand. But with enough guilt and fear as catalysts, you can read anything, even geography books and Deuteronomy.”
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“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.”
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“When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.”
“Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it did somebody else would own the orchard.”
“It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.”
“As they say in Corsica... Goodbye!”
“It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.”
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
“The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.”
“How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!”
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.”
“One night I prayed to God, I asked could he please remove my enemies from my life, and before you knew it I started losing friends.”
“It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher.”
“What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.”
“Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.”
“When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.”
“Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictatorship.”
“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”
“Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.”
“It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many”
“I'll tell you how I'd like to be remembered: As a black man who won the heavyweight title - Who has humorous and who never looked down on those who looked up to him - A man who stood for freedom, justice and equality - And I wouldn't even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.”