Self Quotes

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The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they… — Cesar Chavez
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
Farm workers everywhere are angry and worried that we cannot win without violence. We have proved it before through persistence, hard work, faith and willingness… — Cesar Chavez
If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for… — Albert Einstein
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
A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption. — Peter Dunne
Rapture's self is three parts sorrow. — Amy Lowell
We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation. — Elbert Hubbard
Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency. — Epicurus
Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave. — Marya Mannes
Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is… — Malcolm X
The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the… — Malcolm X
Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the… — Abraham Lincoln
To condemn spontaneous and delightful occupations because they are useless for self-preservation shows an uncritical prizing of life irrespective of its content. — George Santayana
Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which… — Martin Luther
Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it… — Ken Wilber
Every man contemplates an angel in his future self. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. — Jackson Pollock
An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under… — Henri Matisse

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