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The road to social justice for the farm worker is the road of unionization. Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott… — Cesar Chavez
Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be afraid to meet… — Malcolm Gladwell
What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty. — Leslie Caron
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson
Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church… — Abraham Lincoln
I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them. Opinion and the just maintenance… — Thomas Jefferson
Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public… — Thomas Jefferson
It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God, and… — Joseph Story
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. — James Madison
[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the especial duty of… — Joseph Story
Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances. — Mark Twain
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. — Abraham Lincoln
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And… — Thomas Jefferson
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building. — Oscar Wilde
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power… — John F. Kennedy
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him. — Walter Lippmann
I like to read the bible in public places where people are watching me read it. And I like to mumur out to myself: 'Bullshit!' — Zach Galifianakis
Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns among the stupid. — Nicolas Chamfort
The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of… — William Hazlitt
The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Having seen the people of all other nations bowed down to the earth under the wars and prodigalities of their rulers, I have cherished their… — Thomas Jefferson
When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be… — Elihu Root

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