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“There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.”

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The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.

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Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves…

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Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a…

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Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

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We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living. If we…

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I’ve been to the Mountaintop

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The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force.

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The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct.

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Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And…

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Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

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What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

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The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.

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Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange…

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“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he…

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The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather…

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Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,…

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Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in…

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When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who…

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In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that when the official U.S. measure of poverty was developed in 1963, a poor American family had an income twenty-nine times greater than the average per capita income in the rest of the world. An individual American…

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Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.

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[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were…

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Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should…

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The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual…

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If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you've killed a person, an individual,…

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