“I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 43 of 1106
“Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of its citizens upon another portion; the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment, and hopeless servitude or absolute extermination; in utter disregard and violation of those eternal and self-evident truths set forth in our Declaration of Independence.”
“He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.”
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
“To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing.”
“Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.”
“When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.”
“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”
“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”
“My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.”
“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.”
“There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.”
“The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.”
“We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.”
“Never complain. Never explain.”
“If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.”
“The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their "vital interests" are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the "sanctity" of human life, or the "conscience" of the civilized world.”
“I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid upon a basis of . . . individualism, conquest and exploitation . . . A social order such as this, built upon such wrong and basic principles, is bound to retard the development of all. The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered of greater importance than the production of healthy, happy-hearted and free human beings. We, the people, are not free. Our democracy is but a name.”
“The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.”
“The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone, we are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).”