Cheaper Quotes

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity;

we should not distort it.

If you light a lamp for someone else,

it will also brighten your path.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

Whether it be true or not,

I can say, for one, that I have no other

so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow

men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

How far I shall succeed in gratifying

this ambition is yet to be developed.

Nobody made a greater mistake than

he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Honesty is a very expensive gift.

Don’t expect it from cheap people.

The mind is the limit.

As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something,

you can do it.

Every race is a chance to improve.

Technological progress is like an axe

in the hands of a pathological criminal.

My first day in Chicago,

September 4 1983,

I set foot in this city,

and just walking down the street,

it was like roots,

like the motherland.

I knew I belonged here.

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.

Small aim is a crime.

Love is merely a madness,

and I tell you deserves as well a dark house

and a whip as madmen do.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Faith and reason are like two wings on

which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.

The black press, some liberal sportswriters,

and even a few politicians were banging away

at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball.

I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.

My comedy is my life.

You are who you are at this moment because of,

everything that's ever happened to you,

everything that you carried forward for yourself.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club

and in every minor league.

With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life,

we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in.

In baseball or out,

we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality

we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel

in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn

that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy

, working at ten dollars per month)

have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth,

and aristocratic family distinction.