Hidni Quotes

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.

You’ve got to live your life for yourself.

If you light a lamp for someone else,

it will also brighten your path.

Be true to yourself;

don’t let fame change who you are.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better,

you have to take things into your own hands.

We always overestimate the change

that will occur in the next two years and underestimate

the change that will occur in the next ten.

It is the duty of society to

provide protection for the weak and helpless.

Jealous souls will not be answered so;

they are not ever jealous for the cause.

With my wife I don't get no respect.

I made a toast on her birthday to

the best woman a man ever had.

The waiter joined me.

Love is the attempt to

form a friendship

inspired by beauty.

People will come to love their oppression,

to adore the technologies

that undo their capacities to think.

We take care of our own.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Lenience will operate with greater force,

in some instances than rigor.

It is therefore my first wish to have

all of my conduct distinguished by it.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,

and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

If you can’t make it good,

at least make it look good.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that

which devolved upon Washington.

Unless the great God, who assisted him,

shall be with me and aid me, I must fail;

but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm

that directed and protected him shall guide and support me,

I shall not fail I shall succeed.

Good is positive.

Evil is merely privative,

not absolute: it is like cold,

which is the privation of heat.

All evil is so much death or nonentity.

Benevolence is absolute and real.

So much benevolence as a man hath,

so much life hath he.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms,

and they need post

war rebuilding of faith,

trust and confidence.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.