Leingang Minot Quotes & Sayings

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness, - an American, a Negro ... two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Good to have powerful friends. Even better to be a powerful friend, neh? — S.M. Stirling

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will. — Aleister Crowley

One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good. — Bram Cohen

Experience has taught me that the Shepherd is far more willing to show His sheep the path than the sheep are to follow. He is endlessly merciful, patient, tender, and loving. If we, His stupid and wayward sheep, really want to be led, we will without fail be led. Of that I am sure. — Elisabeth Elliot

Our rights come from nature and God, not government. — Paul Ryan

Satan will do everything he can to divide Christians and destroy our witness. Only the Holy Spirit can subdue our old nature and overcome it with God's love. — Billy Graham

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean. — Jeanne Moreau

They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do. — Zack De La Rocha

I believe America's chief strategic vulnerability is our dependence on imported petroleum. — Marcy Kaptur