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“You can fit two United States and maybe a third one into the entire continent of Africa, but on a map we make the entire continent of Africa look like the size of the United States, which is why a lot of people don't know that Africa is a continent. They think it's a country because it looks as big as we do.”
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“Equal means getting the same thing, at the same time and in the same place.”
Source : Deborah Hitzeroth, Thurgood Marshall, Sharon Leon (1997). “Thurgood Marshall”
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“I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.”
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“The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep.”
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“The essential thought must ever be that a man does not, except in his spiritual infancy, accept a statement merely because the Church or someone in authority declares it correct, but because, under mature examination, it is found to be true and right and worthwhile.”
Source : John Andreas Widtsoe (1938). “Program of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”
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“Finally, in 1954 [Ho Chi Minh] agreed to the Geneva Agreement, which divided the country temporarily into two zones, in the hope that national elections might unify the country under his leadership.”
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“You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.”
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“I like Sergio Martinez. I think he's strong, he's gritty, he's got plenty of heart, he's not the fanciest guy you might have seen in boxing but he has the goods to be around a long time in the Middleweight division.”
