mlk day quotes by HENRY DAVID THOREAU-1436680816
If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
mlk day quotes by VETERANS FAST FOR LIFE-1436680710
When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.
mlk day quotes by ALBERT EINSTEIN-1436679378
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
mlk day quotes by HELEN KELLER-1436640237
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.
mlk day quotes by BETTY REESE-1436638916
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
mlk day quotes by ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO-1436625652
If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
kwanzaa quotes by MARIAN ANDERSON-1436624001
[I]f you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.
kwanzaa quotes by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR-1436620828
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
kwanzaa quotes by MARTIN LUTHER KING-1436613184
Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
kwanzaa quotes by HANIEL LONG-1436611721
Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.
kwanzaa quotes by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW-1436610451
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.
kwanzaa quotes by MARQUISE DE SEVIGNE-1436608224
We cannot destroy kindred: our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
kwanzaa quotes by RICHARD WHATELY-1436606519
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
kwanzaa quotes by MOHAMMEDALI-1436601274
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
kwanzaa quotes by ANNE C. WEISBERG-1436599682
We all participate in weaving the social fabric; we should therefore all participate in patching the fabric when it develops holes.
kwanzaa quotes by HENRY FORD-1436596443
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.
kwanzaa quotes by SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR-1436551541
We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.
mom day quotes by SOPHIA LOREN-1436550321
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
kwanzaa quotes by RALPH ABERNATHY-1436548781
I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
kwanzaa quotes by FAITH BALDWIN-1436531008
You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.
kwanzaa quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1436518021
A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!
kwanzaa quotes by G.B. SHAW-1436516144
"Independence"... [is] middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
kwanzaa quotes by ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY-1436514514
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
kwanzaa quotes by VIRGINIA BURDEN-1436504639
Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
kwanzaa quotes by BOOKER T. WASHINGTON-1436464032
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
kwanzaa quotes by MAHATMA GANDHI-1436462262
Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.
kwanzaa quotes by JAMES BALDWIN-1436459248
The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
kwanzaa quotes by BAHA'U'LLAH-1436454868
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
fourth of july quotes by RUDYARD KIPLING-1436453338
All we have of freedom, all we use or know -This our fathers bought for us long and long ago.
fourth of july quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1436431532
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
fourth of july quotes by HAMILTON FISH-1436429810
If our country is worth dying for in time of war let us resolve that it is truly worth living for in time of peace.
fourth of july quotes by ROBERT J. MCCRACKEN-1436422103
We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.
fourth of july quotes by ADLAI STEVENSON-1436378289
America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
fourth of july quotes by LOUIS D. BRANDEIS-1436373714
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
fourth of july quotes by JOHN BURROUGHS-1436368984
That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.
fourth of july quotes by LYNDON B. JOHNSON-1436349086
This, then, is the state of the union: free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.
fourth of july quotes by CURTIS BILLINGS-1436334050
A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it.
fourth of july quotes by FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT-1436332204
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
fourth of july quotes by DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER-1436282193
Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.
fourth of july quotes by ERMA BOMBECK-1436278228
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
fourth of july quotes by HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK-1436267653
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
fourth of july quotes by WOODROW WILSON-1436265992
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.
fourth of july quotes by THOMAS PAINE-1436264401
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
fourth of july quotes by THOMAS PAINE-1436263050
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
housewarming quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1436247226
I am grateful for the lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning, and floors that need waxing because it means I have a home.
housewarming quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1436245915
Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were.
housewarming quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1436205652
It's really the cat's house - we just pay the mortgage.
housewarming quotes by AMBROSE BIERCE-1436204382
House, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
housewarming quotes by COLLEY CIBBER-1436202974
Old houses mended,Cost little less than new before they're ended.
groundhog day quotes by ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO-1436202759
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
groundhog day quotes by DOUG LARSON-1436195385
Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
groundhog day quotes by WILL ROGERS-1436169994
I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.
groundhog day quotes by MAORI PROVERB-1436164652
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
groundhog day quotes by KIN HUBBARD-1436163151
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
groundhog day quotes by GEORGE SANTAYANA-1436161710
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
groundhog day quotes by PATRICK YOUNG-1436160241
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
groundhog day quotes by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTONLUCILE-1436116100
Alas! must it ever be so?Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go,And fight our own shadows forever?
groundhog day quotes by W.J. VOGELTHE OFFICIAL EXPLANATIONS-1436114359
To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.
groundhog day quotes by BILL VAUGHN-1436109528
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
gp day quotes by EDWARD H. DRESCHNACK-1436107807
Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.
gp day quotes by JANE HOWARD-1436096539
Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
gp day quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1436094939
No cowboy was ever faster on the draw than a grandparent pulling a baby picture out of a wallet.
gp day quotes by DESMOND TUTU-1436093557
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
gp day quotes by LOIS WYSE-1436092130
A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
gp day quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1436090509
A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.
gp day quotes by GENE PERRET-1436089025
Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.
gp day quotes by DOUG LARSON-1436087374
Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.
gp day quotes by MARY H. WALDRIP-1436086143
Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old.
gp day quotes by GENE PERRET-1436084459
On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.
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