Marilyn C. Nelson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
Neither the praise nor the blame is our own.
Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

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