Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule and contempt.
Evil societies always kill their consciences.
Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.
If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.
We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.
Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.
Institutional practices, it seems, perpetuate themselves mostly by their invisibility.
Success is taking what you know, and creating the best you that you can be.
I don't have moments of weakness. I'm Rik Mayall.
Come on, lover, let's have a look," Eric said, giving me a quick kiss. He jumped off the back porch with me still attached to him—like a large barnacle
For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.