Accountm Quotes

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity

in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Great teachers emanate

out of knowledge,

passion and compassion.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

Justice without force is powerless;

force without justice is tyrannical.

People judge you by your performance,

so focus on the outcome.

I cannot salute the flag;

I know that I am a black man in a white world.

In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919,

I know that I never had it made.

A great part of courage is

the courage of having done the thing before.

Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.

Be authentic;

everything else is secondary.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence,

and then success is sure.

Surround yourself with people who push you to be better.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun

The moment a country stops improving,

it begins to decline.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally,

socially and politically.

I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States,

and I should not object if it should gradually

terminate in the whole Union.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball,

I can only marvel at the many black players

who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because

they had nowhere else to go.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

Truth be told,

I never graduated from college.

A teacher should have a

creative mind.

Don’t let anyone dim your sparkle.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope