Category: Leader
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
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I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
Abraham Lincoln
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Before we went on any protest, whether it was sit-ins or the freedom rides or any march, we prepared ourselves, and we were disciplined. We were committed to the way of peace – the way of non-violence – the way of love – the way of life as the way of living.
John Lewis
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Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
Nikita Khrushchev
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The essence of America – that which really unites us – is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea – and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
Condoleezza Rice
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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
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We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?
Indira Gandhi
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If your house is burning, wouldn’t you try and put out the fire?
Imran Khan
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When people are economically or socially dislocated, they are always more vulnerable to being radicalized.
Pete Buttigieg