“When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed to bring black people together and elevate black people, join that church. Join that church. If you see where the NAACP is preaching and practicing that which is designed to make black nationalism materialize, join the NAACP. Join any kind of organization, civic, religious, fraternal, political, or otherwise that's based on lifting the black man up and making him master of his own community.”
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Courageous Quotes — page 87 of 1106
“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”
“Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
“The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.”
“Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.”
“From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.”
“Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.”
“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.”
“Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.”
“Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.”
“Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution.”
“Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.”
“England expects that every man will do his duty.”
“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.”
“My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.”
“It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery.”
“The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.”
“For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it.”
“If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.”
“Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.”