#Mother Quotes #Children Quotes #Cocky Quotes
“Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.”
“Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.”
“It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.”
“It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.”
“It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.”
“If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who claim they hate us, we'd see some action. Talk is cheap, if white people didn't want to have a South African situation ... there'd be none. If white people in America didn't want segregation, there'd be none ... it is the man who allows him to lynch who is never seen.”
“A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.”
“Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.”
Alice Cary Poet
Charles Stuart Calverley Poet
J. C. Squire Poet
Joanna Russ Writer
Joey Adams Comedian
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Novelist
Mary Kay Andrews Writer
Phoebe Cary Poet
William Johnson Cory Poet
