#single act

In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#around #better #decision #destroy #good

I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#act #bring #civilization #destroy #development

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference. ↗

— Marc Morial

#contribution #difference #equality #freedom #greatest

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#better #bowing #give #heads #heart

We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#challenge #every #history #injustice #north

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#any #created #criminals #government #income

All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

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