The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.
There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.
I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.
My own back yard, and my mom and dad's back yard, is where I learned about tomatoes and weeds and daily maintenance.
My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.
My mom was a working woman. She made more money than my dad. Both my parents worked. And this was in the '60s.
Kids need a mom and a dad, and people understand that. Marriage between a mom and a dad is most important for kids.
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
When I first came into parliament, there was, on average, a by-election every three months - due not to MPs bailing out, but because of the death rate.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.
Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
Israel should not feel satisfaction at my son's death, for he died on the battlefield, facing the conquerors as he wished, with a gun in his hand.
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
