Quotes 101 till 120 of 128.
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The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.
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The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
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The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.
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There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.
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There is no such thing as a bad beer. It's that some taste better than others.
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They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.
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This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.
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This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.
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This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.
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Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
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Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
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Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories and dramatizations that will permeate our educational system.
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Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
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We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
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We need workers, not leaders. Such workers will solve the problems which race leaders talk about.
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
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We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
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