Friend Quotes

Leave this world a little better than you found it.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results.

More seats were allocated for blacks,

but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites.

At least I had made my men realize

that something could be accomplished by speaking out,

and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

A goal is a dream with a deadline

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery,

I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

It’s okay to be confused;

confusion is the route to discovery.

When nature has work to be done,

she creates a genius to do it.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things

which escape those who dream only by night.

America is a poem in our eyes;

its ample geography dazzles the imagination,

and it will not wait long for metres.

We needed to be assertive as women in those days

assertive and aggressive and the degree to

which we had to be that way depended on where you were.

I had to be.

I don't want to be a part of any club

that would have me as a member.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me

than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Step with care and great tact,

and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

We have not invaded anyone.

We have not conquered anyone.

We have not grabbed their land,

their culture,

their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

The reactionary is always willing to take

a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

Nature has a heart for all that live.

Buy the ticket,

take the ride.

This country,

with its institutions,

belongs to the people who inhabit it.

Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government,

they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it,

or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

It is better to be feared than loved,

if you cannot be both.