It is said that the Negro is ignorant. But why is he ignorant? It comes with ill grace from a man who has put out my eyes to makea parade of my blindness,--to reproach me for my poverty when he has wronged me of my money. . . . If he is poor, what has become of the money he has been earning for the last two hundred and fifty years? Years ago it was said cotton fights and cotton conquers for American slavery. The Negro helped build up that great cotton power in the South, and in the North his sigh was in the whir of its machinery, and his blood and tears upon the warp and woof of its manufactures.
You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.
It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.
My life is gardening, cleaning around the house and power washing.
I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power.
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.
Real power comes by empowering others.
I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain.
Hitler's strength as a leader is that he almost always works through the power of his persuasion; rarely does he command.
A genuine desire to be ONE enhances our lives with peace and power.
The less the power, the greater the desire to exercise it.
Hate cannot be fought with hate. Evil cannot be conquered by darkness. Only love has the power to conquer them both.
Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.