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.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.
Johnny Cash has always been larger than life.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
There are four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. That’s four million solutions to the problem of staying alive.
