Quotes of: Eleanor-roosevelt Keyword

Roosevelt got a chance to name an amazing nine justices of the Supreme Court. He was not namby-pamby on this question. He wanted people who shared his views, he wanted liberals, and he wanted lots of them.

Noah Feldman

I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.

Tim Scott

President Obama and members of his administration constantly express rage and anger over events totally within their control. It's an odd and unsettling fact of American life that so many Americans seem to think that such expressions of frustration s...

Ben Shapiro

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

Hugo Chavez

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

F. Sionil Jose

After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

Jerry Saltz

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

Jerry Saltz

Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of the most remarkable artists of our time of any genre, and as a hip-hop artist he carries the weight of that art form with...

Michael Eric Dyson

Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.

Tony Buzan

A temporary coalition of anger against the old regime was no basis for a stable government.

1913: In Search of the World Before the Great War

Always take all the time to reflect that circumstances permit, but when the time for action has come, stop thinking. (Andrew Jackson)

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach.

Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

Even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to believe that it is foolish and unimportant to try.

Here Be Dragons: Telling Tales Of People, Passion and Power

History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.

Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing

Spain, for so long a mere geographical expression, was somehow transformed into an historical fact.

Imperial Spain: 1469-1716

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.

Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

<...> tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture.

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World