Political, Leadership, and Cultural Quotes

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Political Quotes
Lincoln in Book with Quotation "I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere should be free." - Abraham Lincoln	John F. Kennedy 21 quotations by President John F. Kennedy	Mahatma Gandhi "An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi	Thinking Alike "If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking." - George S. Patton, Jr.	Leadership "I am more aftaid of an army of 100 sheep lead by a lion than an army of 100 lions lead by a sheep." - Charles Maurice
A Nation That Destroys "A nation that destroys its' soil destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people." - Franklin D. Roosevelt	Vision "Keep you eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground." - Theodore Roosevelt	Accomplishment "The greatest doer must also be a great dreamer." - Thodore Roosevelt	Burning Book "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." - Ray Bradbury	Destiny "The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule." - Albert Einstein
King Free At Last! "Free At Last" - Martin Luther King, Jr.	Martin Luther King Jr. "I Have a Dream" - Martin Luther King, Jr.	Martin Luther King Jr. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - Martin Luther King, Jr.	Martin Luther King Jr. "From every mountainside, let freedom ring!" - Martin Luther King, Jr.	Frederick Douglass "There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution..." - Frederick Douglass
Abraham Lincoln "What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army....(cont)" - Abraham Lincoln, 1858	Dignity "No race can prosper until it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem." - Booker T. Washington	Images of Labor - A. Philip Randolph "The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement traditionally has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor." - A. Philip Randoph, 1944	Patience "I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my way in the end." - Margaret Thatcher	Writers Who Changed the World - Anne Frank "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
History Through Literature - All Quiet on the Western Front "We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts... We were cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war." - from All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque	Booker T. Washington "Great men cultivate love... only little men cherish a spirit of hatred." - Booker T. Washington	Whitney Young "The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to someone else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self." - Whitney Young	History Through Literature - Red Badge of Courage "He suddenly lost concern for himself, and forgot to look at a menacing fate. He became not a man but a member. He felt that something of which he was a part - a regiment, and army, a cause, or a country - was in crisis. He was welded into a common personality which was dominated by a single desire. For some moments he could flee no more than a little finger can commit a revolution from a hand." - from The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane	Marva Collins "Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide." - Marva Collins
Heroes of the 20th Century - Mahatma Gandhi "Strength does not come from physical capacity, it comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi	Franklin Delano Roosevelt "History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and starvation, their democracy succeeds; but if they do not, they grow impatient. Therefore, the only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt	History Through Literature - Invisible Man "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." - from The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison	James Baldwin "Ignorance allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." - James Baldwin	A House Divided Cannot Stand "A house divided cannot stand." - Arabic Proverb