People Quotes

I was just excited to have challenging work to do

and smart people to work with.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free...

so other people would be also free.

People will not look forward to posterity

who never look backward to their ancestors.

What people say,

what people do,

and what they say they do are entirely different things.

If the people remember

me as a good teacher,

that will be the

biggest honour for me.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated.

It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

However able and faithful he may be in other respects,

people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Being powerful is like being a lady.

If you have to tell people you are,

you aren’t.

We are just trying to make tools for people.

Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska,

or other new territories,

is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there.

The whole nation is interested that the best

use shall be made of these territories.

We want them for the homes of free white people.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls

Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

People react to fear,

not love.

You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation,

actually making life clever,

easy and convenient for white people.

But when you have to get transportation home,

you are denied an equal accommodation.

Our existence was for the white man's comfort and well being;

we had to accept being deprived of just being human.

I want young people to know it’s okay to be different.

As far back as I can remember,

I knew there was something wrong with our way of life

when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

Better hang out with people better than you.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

I liked working with smart people.

Anything is possible when

You have the right people

There to support you.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

The human body has two ends on it:

one to create with and one to sit on.

Sometimes people get their ends reversed.

When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.