Chartacter Quotes

We find ourselves under the government of

a system of political institutions,

conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty,

than any of which the history of former times tells us.

Patriotism is more than waving flags;

it is service and responsibility.

Telling a story is about the emotional journey,

not just the plot.

When I was born I was so ugly

the doctor slapped my mother.

One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is

to invent your way out.

Stand with anybody that stands right,

stand with him while he is right and part with him

when he goes wrong.

But who prays for Satan?

Who, in eighteen centuries,

has had the common humanity

to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

I’m doing my best and I’m just being me.

Show me something I haven't seen before.

I haven’t slept for ten days,

because that would be too long.

We suffer from an incurable disease called hope.

People will come to love their oppression,

to adore the technologies

that undo their capacities to think.

Seize the moment.

Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’

who waved off the dessert cart.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

The final test of the worth of a society is

the quality of life of its citizens.

Man is priest,

and scholar,

and statesman,

and producer,

and soldier.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by

all and thought to include all; but now,

to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal,

it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till,

if its framers could rise from their graves,

they could not at all recognize it.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

I think we must get rid of slavery,

or we must get rid of freedom.