Winston Churchill “ĭo what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. If you’re going through hell, keep going. One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man. Viktor FranklĬourage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important. Man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood. You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry. The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. Bukowski “Ī man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others. Andrew Carnegieįind what you love and let it kill you.
#The measure of a man quotes full
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting - Nietzsche “ Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman–a rope over an abyss. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain.
I've looked over and I've seen the promised land. But it really doesn't matter with me now because I've been to the mountaintop. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right.” Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. “All we say to America is, ‘Be true to what you said on paper.’ If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn't committed themselves to that over there. “I've Been to the Mountaintop” speech, April 3, 1968 “For when people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.” Speech before a group of students at Barratt Junior High School in Philadelphia, October 26, 1967 For it isn't by size that you win or fail. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, 1967 We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking.” It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent.
If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. “The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. READ MORE: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Famous Speech Almost Didn’t Have the Phrase "I Have a Dream" "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963 Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.” This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. “We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. " I Have A Dream" speech, Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963 "Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope." "Letter from Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963 Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. " Letter From Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963 “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.” "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." “A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart” sermon, August 30, 1959 Science deals mainly with facts religion deals mainly with values. Science gives man knowledge, which is power religion gives man wisdom, which is control. "Science investigates religion interprets. "True peace is not merely the absence of tension it is the presence of justice."
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