"The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future."

-- Carl L. Becker

#Mind Quotes #Important Quotes #Moral Quotes

“Whatever insults my state insults me,”
“I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.”
“The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.”
“It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist.”
“Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed.”
“I'm-going-to-tilt-my-head-at-a-perpendicular-angle-and-then-attempt-to-extract-your-soul-through-your-mouth-like-some-giant-alien-sucker-fish”
“... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.”
“In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.”

Source : Timothy B. Tyson (2007). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, p.107, Broadway Books

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