Society

"I learned to slip back and forth between m black and white worlds. One of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than ...

"In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued." - Aung San Suu Kyi ...

"We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, ...

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

"There’s a stereotype that black people are lazy. I don't know if that’s true, but I know white people went all the way to Africa to get out of doing work." - Lance Crouther ...

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."                  - Chief Seattle ...

"It's too bad the people who really know how to run the country are so busy cutting hair and driving taxis." - George Burns ...

"It is likely that I will die in my bed. My successor will die in prison. His successor will die executed in the public square. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild ...

"In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops." - Paul Brooks ...

"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich." - Sir Peter Ustinov ...