I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
Jackie RobinsonI will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!
Nipsey HussleThe just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
Khalil GibranI believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.
George W. BushOnly when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.
Billy GrahamWisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil GibranI would rather have peace in the world than be President.
Harry S. TrumanThe American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.
Angelina JoliePrinciples have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark TwainTruly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
William ShakespeareThe superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
ConfuciusAll sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.
Friedrich NietzscheTo appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. KennedyI believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.
Pope FrancisThe value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert EinsteinI must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Anne FrankI will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, ‚Oh, you know, I can use this word because I’m black.‘
Maya AngelouThe greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma GandhiI favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
Ronald ReaganThere is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.
Douglas AdamsThose are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.
Groucho MarxMake sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.
Billy GrahamIf one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
ChanakyaTo believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mahatma GandhiYou know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Harry S. TrumanWhy has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
Alexander HamiltonIt is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark TwainI was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI believe that in the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.
Russell M. NelsonTo be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.
James BaldwinThe legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
Abraham LincolnWe are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
William JamesIt’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Stephen KingI’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.
Vivienne WestwoodWhy has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Alexander HamiltonOur heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Walt DisneyWithin one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.
Margaret AtwoodThe right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
Jackie RobinsonEverything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.
Angelina JolieBe careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
EpictetusModesty forbids what the law does not.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.
Stephen CoveyModesty is the color of virtue.
DiogenesMorality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.
Albert EinsteinFor everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
Taylor SwiftIn the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.
Thich Nhat HanhAs a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
James MadisonI have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.All great peoples are conservative.
Thomas CarlyleCharacter is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham LincolnCharacter is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
Jimmy CarterA man without a vote is man without protection.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLet us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.
Ronald ReaganI don’t care about money.
Lady GagaMy principles are more important than the money or my title.
Muhammad AliTrain up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
King SolomonIn the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.
Barack ObamaWhen you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
Noam Chomsky