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Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.

The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.

The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.