Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.
Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.
Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.
Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
My end goal is just to do projects at the end of the day that I'm proud of.
A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one.
But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it—everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'—you have to ask: 'If this were state controlled media, how would it be any different?'
True abundance isn't based on our net worth, it's based on our self-worth.