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Life has always...

Life has always...

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in...

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Anyone who has...

Anyone who has...

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

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Mikhail Bakunin: If there be...

Mikhail Bakunin: If there be...

If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any...

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Julian Bond: Black reporters are...

Julian Bond: Black reporters are...

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.

Source: In The Almanac of...

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Julian Bond: Moulded on Africa's...

Julian Bond: Moulded on Africa's...

Moulded on Africa's anvil,
tempered down home.


Source: In Famous Black...

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Medgar Evers: I'm looking to...

Medgar Evers: I'm looking to...

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car . . . If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting...

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Jesse Jackson: Great things happen...

Jesse Jackson: Great things happen...

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in...

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Jesse Jackson: Never look down...

Jesse Jackson: Never look down...

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Dick Gregory: I never believed...

Dick Gregory: I never believed...

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after...

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Virginia Woolf: My own brain...

Virginia Woolf: My own brain...

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery --always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then...

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Virginia Woolf: We all indulge...

Virginia Woolf: We all indulge...

We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone...

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Eugene Debs: Intelligent discontent is...

Eugene Debs: Intelligent discontent is...

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Niccolo Machiavelli: Whosoever desires constant...

Niccolo Machiavelli: Whosoever desires constant...

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Source:...

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Jesus Christ: No one lights...

Jesus Christ: No one lights...

No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand,...

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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: [Americans] are the...

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: [Americans] are the...

[Americans] are the great Satan, the wounded snake.

Source: On Americans, NBC TV, 8...

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St Jerome: A friend is...

St Jerome: A friend is...

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Source: In The...

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William Booth: The greatness of...

William Booth: The greatness of...

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Source: In The...

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Action springs not...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Action springs not...

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Source:...

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Sonny Liston: If they ever...

Sonny Liston: If they ever...

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for...

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Muhammad Ali: I want to...

Muhammad Ali: I want to...

I want to get out with my greatness intact.

Source: Announcing his retirement. The...

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