Shirley Boone famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

  • We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

  • This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  • As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

  • Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

  • Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

  • The day of individual happiness has passed.

  • I'm not going to single individuals out but Yakubu has missed loads of great chances

  • Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

  • Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.