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Talk is cheap...It is the way we organize and use our lives everyday that tells what we believe in. — Cesar Chavez
Until the chance for political participation is there, we who are poor will continue to attack the soft part of the American system - its… — Cesar Chavez
Those who are willing to sacrifice and be of service have very little difficulty with people. They know what they are all about. People can't… — Cesar Chavez
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is… — Charles Caleb Colton
All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd… — Albert Camus
All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all. — John F. Kennedy
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the… — John Selden
Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action. — David Seabury
That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly… — Malcolm X
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action… — Albert Einstein
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his… — Thomas Jefferson
Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood… — Winston Churchill
Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent… — Woodrow Wilson
There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into… — Winston Churchill
Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen. — John F. Kennedy
How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ? — Dan Barker
A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos. — Aristotle

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