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Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.
Dick Gregory
African-American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer and entrepreneur (1932 - 2017) -
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
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Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
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Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.
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Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
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Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.
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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
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Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
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Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet.
Schneier, Bruce (2001) -
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
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