#institution

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was followed in the late 60s when black studies started. You'd get one here and one there and one here, like Johnny Appleseed. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#black #followed #get #here #institution

We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#community #daily #effect #encourage #held

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#agree #arguing #cannot #deeply #definition

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#belongs #constitutional #constitutional right #country #exercise

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

#great #i #institution #journalism #leave

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#climate #fulfilling #go #guidance #indeed

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. ↗

— James Madison

#best #crafty #dangerous #encroachments #every

Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#doing #institutions #maximize #maximizing #mean

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#as far as #certain #church #concerned #despicable

As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters of most that's wrong with our present masters. ↗

— Tom Metzger

#attackers #consider #far #headquarters #hit