"Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up --mimic/ape/suck --in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you --you and our children."

Jordan, June | Language | 1 bookmarks

"Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other."

Truth, Sojourner | Humankind | 2 bookmarks

"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Proverb, American Indian | Money | 14 bookmarks

"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."

Cock, Barnett | Committees and Meetings | 2 bookmarks

"I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."

Huxley, Aldous | Happiness | 4 bookmarks

"Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism."

Warren, Earl | Communism and Socialism | 1 bookmarks

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."

Washington, Booker T. | Excellence | 5 bookmarks

"I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."

Washington, Booker T. | Hatred | 1 bookmarks

"No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward."

Washington, Booker T. | Rewards | 1 bookmarks

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."

Washington, Booker T. | Strength | 2 bookmarks