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Helen Keller7 quotes
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller · 1903Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. — Helen Keller · 1940The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart. — Helen Keller · 1891Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. — Helen Keller · 1902When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. — Helen Keller · 1929The highest result of education is tolerance. — Helen Keller · 1903All 7 quotes →Harper Lee4 quotes
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. — Harper Lee · 1960You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. — Harper Lee · 1960But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal-there is one human institiution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockeffeler, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. — Harper Lee · 1960I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system-that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. — Harper Lee · 1960Hugo Black3 quotes
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. — Hugo Black · 1947An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment. — Hugo Black · 1964It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant, and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes." — Hugo Black · 1960Angela Davis2 quotes
Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible. — Angela Davis · 2014Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo-obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. — Angela Davis · 1974E.O. Wilson2 quotes
The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured-especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised. — E.O. Wilson · 1998The truth is that we need invertebrates but they don't need us. If human beings were to disappear tomorrow, the world would go on with little change... But if invertebrates were to disappear, I doubt that the human species could last more than a few months. — E.O. Wilson · 1987Hank Williams2 quotes
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill?
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whinin' low,
I'm so lonesome I could cry. — Hank Williams · 1949I can settle down and be doin' just fine
Till I hear an old freight rollin' down the line,
Then I hurry straight home and pack
And if I didn't go, I believe I'd blow my stack
I love you baby, but you gotta understand
When the Lord made me he made a ramblin' man. — Hank Williams · 1951Condoleezza Rice1 quote
The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly he can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. — Condoleezza Rice · 2002E.B. Sledge1 quote
Slowly the reality of it all formed in my mind: we were expendable! It was difficult to accept. We come from a nature and a culture that values life and the individual. To find oneself in a situation where your life seems of little value is the ultimate in loneliness. It is a humbling experience. — E.B. Sledge · 1981George Wallace1 quote
Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever! — George Wallace · 1963Jesse Jackson1 quote
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and all are precious in God's sight. America is not like a blanket, one piece of unbroken cloth-the same color, the same texture, the same size. It is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread. — Jesse Jackson · 1984John Lewis1 quote
We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us. — John Lewis · 2006Osceola1 quote
When I make up my mind, I act. If I speak, what I say, I will do. If the hail rattles, let the flowers be crushed. The oak of the forest will lift up its head to the sky and storm, towering and unscathed. — Osceola · 1836Ray Charles1 quote
Georgia, Georgia, no peace I find,
Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind. — Ray Charles · 1960Ruby Sales1 quote
We have to begin to have a conversation that incorporates a vision of love with a vision of outrage. — Ruby Sales · 2016Satchel Paige1 quote
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. — Satchel Paige · 1953