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“Abraham Lincoln seems to me the grandest figure yet, on all the crowded canvas of the Nineteenth Century.”
Doris Kearns Goodwin • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
On April 3, the marchers spent the night in Navsari—just twelve miles north of Narotam's village. Nine thousand gathered to hear Gandhi speak, according to the police; fifty thousand, said the pro-independence newspaper. Navsari's population was less than twenty-five thousand, but people came from all the villages around. The speech was given in th
... See moreMinal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.
Kuan Yew Lee • The Wit and Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew
On Liberty
A secondary motivation in Gandhi’s somatic thinking was to discipline the hard edges of emotional reactions that fragment the revolutionary community and keep it from harmonious and effective action, activities which he thought of as purging the body of the effects of colonization.
Don Hanlon Johnson • Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices: Toward an Inclusive Somatics
He possessed all the disposition to deceive, but wanted the power.
Frederick Douglass • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Original Classic Edition): An American Slave
national movement to apply an ethical framework, through government action, to the untrammeled growth of modern America. Roosevelt understood from the outset that this task hinged upon the need to develop powerfully reciprocal relationships with members of the national press.
Doris Kearns Goodwin • The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.
No army, however brave, can win when its generals are weak.