Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-01-14 Jan 14, 2025You know, being black doesn’t give you a license to call people racist any more than being Jewish gives you license to call people anti-Semitic.~ Alan DershowitzWe live in a world that has popularized Black people showing the same hate towards white people that people like Martin Luther King Jr. died fighting to overcome. It’s sad. Sad as hell.~ CJ PearsonAny man who tries to incite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do so in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainty that class’s own worst enemy.~ Theodore Roosevelt Jan 13, 2025At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities....~ Lord ActonWhat a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.~ Bruce BartonDarkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Jan 10, 2025The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny.~ William Ellery ChanningLoud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.~ Adi ShankaracharyaHow I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.~ Albert Einstein Jan 9, 2025Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of men who are apparently “insiders” know how vulnerable the system is because they know how ambiguous their own attachments to it are. The slightest challenge exposes the fragile foundations of legitimacy of the state.~ John ScharrWhen the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine.~ Bertrand RussellOf all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.~ Robert A. Heinlein Jan 8, 2025The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.~ William HazlittLiberty is quite as much a moral as a political growth,--the result of free individual action, energy, and independence.~ Samuel SmilesSome writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.~ Thomas Paine Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print