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"There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
"There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution"
"My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go."
"Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people."
"People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
"I think sometimes when you want attention you can wear sunglasses and people are like "Who is that?""
"Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program."
"Follow your path, and let the people talk."
"Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up. We never gave in. We never became bitter. We didn't hate. We continued to press on. And that's what we're saying: There are some ups, there are some downs, and when you're not down, you must have the capacity and the ability to get up and keep going."
"For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders."
"Having a Rolex or a Benz is not something that actually represents your success because there’s always something more expensive to buy. Success is really being able to do things for others as well as the people around you and yourself."
"The Notebook ... that’s my favorite one. I’ve read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love."
"it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people"
"A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things."
"There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me."
"If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?"
"I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me."
"I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas."
"In many ways, we've been taught to think that the real question is, do people deserve to die for the crimes they've committed? And that's a very sensible question. But there's another way of thinking about where we are in our identity. The other way of thinking about it is not, do people deserve to die for the crimes they commit, but do we deserve to kill?"
"People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves."
