Alphabet Quotes

There are no strangers here;

only friends you haven’t yet met.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear

that we will make one.

That deep emotional conviction of

the presence of a superior reasoning power,

which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe,

forms my idea of God.

Good governance is the key to a prosperous nation.

We are made of star stuff.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

This morning when I put on my underwear

I could hear the fruit of the loom guys laughing at me.

I would rather die than

do something which I know

to be a sin, or to be

against God's will.

Liberty cannot be established without morality,

nor morality without faith.

If you let the world know who you are,

it will either accept you or reject you.

The love that comes

from friendship is

the underlying facet

of a happy life.

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.

Sometimes simple things are the most extraordinary.

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.

You will not be punished for your anger,

you will be punished by your anger.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble,

finding it everywhere,

diagnosing it wrongly,

and applying unsuitable remedies.

Life is all about evolving and growing as a person.

Set your heart on doing good.

Do it over and over again.

In giving freedom to the slave,

we assure freedom to the free

honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve.

We shall nobly save,

or meanly lose,

the last best hope of earth.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

The government is us;

we are the government,

you and I.