A.J. Russell Quotes
What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.
The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.
Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.
The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness.
A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.
If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
Who are we? We are children of God. Our potential is unlimited. Our inheritance is sacred. May we always honor that heritage - in every thought and deed.
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Do what your momma tells you to do, go to sunday school, go to church, and when you die, you'll go to Statesboro.
The temple endowment was given by revelation. Thus, it is best understood by revelation, prayerfully sought with a sincere heart.
I've always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said.
Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say: 'Do you want the criminals off the street or not?'
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Remember that basketball is a game of habits. If you make the other guy deviate from his habits, you've got him
Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.
We can go through our whole lives worrying about our future happiness, and totally miss where true peace lives-right here, right now.
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest.
I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.
I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.
No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?
Heart in champions has to do with the depth of our motivation and how well your mind and body react to pressure - that is, being able to do what you do best under maximum pain and stress.
I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.
Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.
Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether hard physical work, menial or boring work, or inspirational work.
