Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.
Live as though today is your last, love as though tomorrow will never come, and dream as if there are no limits.
No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.
It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.
This is how The Jewel operates. Status is our sole occupation. Gossip is our currency.
If we are to be truly free, that freedom will come through cooperation and tolerance with one another.
Oooh, sneaky, I thought. Must be how normal mothers operate instead of yelling.
We must reprogram ourselves to understand that cooperation is a higher principle than competition.
The hundreds of thousands of men and women at Toyota operations worldwide - including the 172,000 team members and dealers in North America - are among the best in the auto industry.
That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
This planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Civilization needs a new operating system.
I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.
Loyalism, or Unionism, or Protestantism, or whatever you want to call it, in Northern Ireland - it operates not as a class system, but a caste system.
I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.
Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past.
NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves.
