#pa

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#anywhere #else #hates #injustice #land

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#first #half #lives #our #our lives

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#doubting #made #morons #most #natural

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#art #battles #cares #comes #down

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#book #copies #give #hope #i

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#bookshelf #century #delivered #middle #paper

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#age #attachment #book #jews #obligatory

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. ↗

— Steven Biko

#being #black #blackness #committed #describing

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#am #bad #been #camp #companions

After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#comparatively #cross #crossing #felt #had