“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those w…”— Barry Goldwater, washingtonpost.com
“They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.' And they learned.”— Huey Long, en.wikiquote.org
“Now, just a word about the poor Negroes … They're here. They've got to be cared for … The poor Negroes have got to live, too.”— Huey Long, en.wikiquote.org
“Treat them just the same as anybody else, give them an opportunity to make a living, and to get an education.”— Huey Long, en.wikiquote.org
“I'm not a person who thinks the world would be entirely different if it was run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten what high school was like.”— Madeleine Albright, en.wikiquote.org
“...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, amazon.com
“The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.”— Friedrich Engels, amazon.com
“There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“A janitor or a chancellor deserves the same treatment. Never try to figure out who they are by what they’re wearing.”— Michael Tan, opinion.inquirer.net
“All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.”— Harry Mulisch, amazon.com
“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”— Albert Einstein, amazon.com
“Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”— Brad Meltzer, bradmeltzer.com
“In his grave, we praise him for his decency—but when he walked amongst us, we responded with no decency of our own….We must act on the altogether proper assumption that Martin Luther King asked for nothing but that which was his due... He asked only for equality, and it is that which we denied him.”— Rod Serling, newspapers.com
“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”— Brad Meltzer, goodreads.com
“The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.”— Howard Gardner, questia.com
“From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being…by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list…”— Paul Newman, amazon.com
“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.”— Christopher Hitchens, amazon.com