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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
Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and… — Malcolm X
We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us… — Malcolm X
Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which… — Abraham Lincoln
Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result. — Abraham Lincoln
If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly… — Albert Einstein
But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the… — Albert Einstein
A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand… — John F. Kennedy
The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it must traverse all… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
I am sustained by the prayers of the people in this country. I guess an appropriate way to say this, it's one of the beautiful… — George W. Bush
This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high. — Abraham Cowley
The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies:… — Albert Camus
A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace… — Oliver Sacks
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. — Bob Hope
Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up. — George Bernard Shaw
All progress means war with society. — George Bernard Shaw
The one means that wins the easiest victory over reason is terror and force. — Adolf Hitler
Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds… — John F. Kennedy
Well, you could become a Southern Baptist. I mean, instead of having to obey the Pope, you could just obey your husband. — Arianna Huffington
Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a… — Tertullian
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and… — Virginia Woolf
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind;… — Samuel Johnson
When we deliberate it is about means and not ends. — Aristotle

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