"I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense â€” and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves, that where the law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must act in self-defense against lawless violence."

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Source : "Negroes with Guns". Book by Robert Franklin Williams, 1998.

Robert F. Williams

#Self Quotes #Order Quotes #Law Quotes

“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.”

Source : Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)
“A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.”

Source : "A Modern Introduction to Logic". Book by Susan Stebbing, p. 198, 1930.
“Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person.”
“The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action...If we pray the work...if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus...that's what makes us content.”
“In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.”
“When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.”
“I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.”

Source : "Jonah Lomu - The road back" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.
“I noticed that there are no B batteries. I think that's to avoid confusion, cause if there were you wouldn't know if someone was stuttering. 'Yes, hello I'd like some b-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries.' 'What kind?' 'B-batteries!' and D-batteries that's hard for foreigners. 'Yes, I would like de batteries.'”

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