Category: Quotes (Page 1 of 3)
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
A Time to Break the Silence: April 4, 1967
“But ever since the Founding Fathers of our nation dreamed this dream, America has been something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against herself.”
The American Dream: July 4, 1965
“…white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.”
Grosse Pointe High School: March 14, 1968
“I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic.”
Letter to Coretta Scott King: July 18, 1952
“The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.”
A Time to Break the Silence: April 4, 1967
“…the price that America must pay for the continued oppression of the Negro and other minority groups is the price of its own destruction.”
The American Dream: July 4, 1965
“White Americans must recognize that justice for black people cannot be achieved without radical changes in the structure of our society.”
Where Do We Go from Here? 1967
“All over the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression, and out of the wounds of a frail world, new systems of justice and equality are being born. We in the West must support these revolutions.”
A Time to Break the Silence: April 4, 1967
“Many of our white brothers feel deep down in their hearts that the struggle for racial justice is right. Yet they remain silent, because they are afraid that the majority will criticize them and they will suffer social ostracism.”
Non-Conformist Sunday: Jan 16, 1966
Enjoy every sandwich.
Warren Zevon
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.”
Theodore Roethke
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
Walter Cronkite
“Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.”
John Muir
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
– Orson Welles
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
– John F. Kennedy
When I stopped doing cocaine, it was amazing to me that I didn’t need to carry a gun anymore. I just didn’t need one!
— Joe Walsh of The Eagles to GQ
“We are all horrible and wonderful and figuring it out.”
— Harris Wittels
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