Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Wiser on Wednesday - miscellaneous qoutes

  • He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one leg. - Chinese Proverb
  • I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice. - Martin Luther King Jr. (US clergyman and civil rights leader 1929-1968)
  • Show me your friend and I will show you your character (in Akan kyereme woadamfo na menkyere wo wosuban.) - Kwaku Boateng
  • "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." —Margaret Mead
  • If you fail to plan , you will plan to fail - Kolawole Kayode
  • With the people, for the people, by the people, I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, 'cause that's what really happens. - Fannie Lou Hamer (U.S. civil rights activist, 1917-1977)
  • The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves - Willian Hazlitt (English essayist, 1778-1830)
  • If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. - Chinese Proverb
  • We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond. - Gwendolyn Brooks

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