Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.
The greatest attitude of all is gratitude.
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.
A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Our true nationality is mankind.
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.