Hidni Quotes

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education

and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry

shall become much more general than at present,

and should be gratified to have it in my power

to contribute something to the advancement of

any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate

the happy period.

I had felt for a long time that,

if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit,

that I would refuse to do so.

Common sense is not so common.

Don’t ever play yourself.

The ends justify the means.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can,

at the same time,

will that it should become a universal law.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital.

Capital is only the fruit of labor,

and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.

Labor is the superior of capital,

and deserves much the higher consideration.

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.

Political courage means standing up for your beliefs,

no matter the opposition.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present

Cash combined with courage in a crisis is priceless.

Imagine all the people living life in peace.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The differences between

friends cannot but

reinforce their friendship.

My heart is ever at your service.

What you do makes a difference,

and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness,

and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

When I was younger I could remember anything,

whether it happened or not.

I don’t do it for the money.