United Quotes
Segregation is a word of the past. Unity is the key to a peaceful future.
Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind of black man altogether, one who got to use his mind.
No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.
There are few things more powerful than people united.
You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.
Washington was no politician as we understand the word, " replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The people don't like that sort of royal airs.
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations.
We are united by something greater and more valuable than our beliefs alone: the freedom to have those beliefs, and believe what we want without persecution - we must protect that at all costs.
An hour later, Amina stood at a pay phone in a mall hallway, where poop and perfume and the grease from the food court formed the kind of atmosphere you might find in Jupiter's red spot
Where there are two on point of independently distinguished purposes, you will find one infinite journey whose path is blazed with the guiding light of wisdom.
Because discipline is misunderstood or not as valued as it has been, the United States—and some might argue the world—is experiencing a cultural leadership crisis.
I would rather have 10, 000 stories than 10, 000 in my bank account @myhumancompass Roy ('Backpack') Baron author of Looking Glass Shattered.
My last thought before falling asleep was that we are all a lot more capable of conquering obstacles and fears than we think.
As long as you know 'to let' means to rent and not a place to pee, you’re all set to travel in the UK. The lifts and the boots and everything else don’t really matter.
The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions.
In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.
When you turn a blind eye to atrocities, you are complicit in them.
Believe me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a child from a poor background than a rich one.
Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.
If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president.
On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.
Nearly every historic fruit and vegetable variety once found in the United States has disappeared.
I will not just love you till death.I will love you for eternity, this life and the next.
I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.
What if, I never tire of asking, we said 'Secret Council' instead of the archaic and therefore cuddly 'Privy Council'?
I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama’s government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corruption and not the ongoing rise of it.
It's one thing to stick to your guns. It's quite another to hold those guns to the heads of your citizens.
I don't believe in the Constitution because I'm American, I'm American because I believe in the Constitution.
If the United Nations wants to do something to be remembered forever, I guess that would be freeing people from insanity of religion.
It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right.
America does not have a health-car system. We have a sick-care system... It's a stretch to use the word "system" to describe, as this word denotes organization.
Interestingly, the more Americans report knowing about Muslim countries, the more likely they are to hold positive views of those countries. (p. 155)
America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters.
There are people who think they can dance out of slavery. “I’m going to do escapist drugs and hop from one party or festival to another. I will dance my out of the harsh realities of Planet Earth
...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.