“Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful society--but the educated citizen has a special responsibility by the virtue of his greater understanding. For whether he has ever studied history or current events, ethics or civics, the rules of a profession or the tools of a trade, he knows that only a respect for the law makes it possible for free men to dwell together in peace and progress.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 228 of 1106
“Poverty is not what's in your pocket - its what you have in your head.”
“I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!”
“Our men must win or die. Pompey's men have... other options.”
“Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need!... It is the modern Pandora's box, and its plagues are loose upon the world.”
“For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.”
“The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.”
“Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.”
“The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.”
“There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.”
“The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.”
“Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.”
“The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.”
“It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--?”
“Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.”
“All human power is a compound of time and patience.”
“The imperialistic or capitalistic system occupies areas. It occupies Vietnam now. They occupy them by sending soldiers there, by sending policeman there. The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism. The gun in the establishment's hand makes the establishment secure in its exploitation.”
“The intimate coupling of two men or two women is not marriage. It is a pale and misshapen counterfeit that will only serve to empty marriage of its meaning and destroy the institution that is the keystone in the arch of civilization... Marriage is the sine qua non for healthy children and a stable society. It is 'fundamental to the very existence and survival of the race.'”
“Anytime you hear the concept of the separation of church and state being talked about these days, it is never in regard to maintaining the restraints on government; instead, it is always talking about what Christians and churches cannot do.”
“Do not dare not to dare.”