Social & Racial Sayings

Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself.

I consider science to be an integral part of our endeavour to answer the one great philosophical question which embraces all others, the one that has puzzled man from earliest times: Who are we? What are we?

The atomic bomb is a weapon for aggressors, and the atomic bomb is a weapon of terror. It is not a defensive weapon. It is not a weapon of precision. It is a weapon for killing people. And its whole history has been one of killing people in a very in…

The greatest joy for a man is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to ride their horses, to take away their possessions, to gaze upon their weeping faces, to embrace their wives and daughters.

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows others the way. Freedom and slavery are states of mind.

It is Our wish that Our people, without distinction of class or calling, should all be loyal to the Imperial House and zealous in the discharge of their duties.

Don't tell me words don't matter. 'I have a dream.' Just words. 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' Just words. Just words? 'We the People.' Just words.

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.

Nothing is created, either in the operations of art, or in those of nature; and it may be considered as a general principle that in every operation there exists an equal quantity of matter before and after the operation.

Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows traces of her workings apart from the beaten path.

I am a man, no doubt. But I am also a woman. I am a white woman. I am a white woman who lives in a white society. I am a white woman who is a feminist. I am a white woman who is a mother. I am a white woman who is a writer. I am all of these things, …

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

I don't mind being called a Tom, because I am a Tom. I'm a Tom for my race. I'm a Tom for my people. I'm a Tom for my good old United States of America.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, but I will be satisfied if the federation of secret laws, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.

I was in a privileged position, to be quite frank, to have access to all of this information. And I took it for granted, and I didn't question it. And then, at some point, I realized that I couldn't just sit on this information.

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed, the scale is tipped to the good—he and the world are saved.

I went to Africa. 'Cause I wanted to find out where I came from. And you know what I found out? I'm from a long line of slaves. I didn't find no kings and queens. I found a bunch of people living in huts with no doors. And I said, 'No wonder y'all go…

But in any country a few offenders must always be expected, and if some men are found transgressing the proclamation that has been promulgated, all the foreign envoys know that We have punished them even with the death penalty. Therefore, Our conscie…

May I be privileged to build the foundations of the state safe and sound, and lay the groundwork for the future as I wish, and so gain the reward of my endeavor: to be called the author of the best possible constitution, and to carry with me, when I …

The Idols of the Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are…