E. S. Carter Quotes

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

No man knows what he can do until he tries.

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.

There are only four kinds of people in the world - those who have been caregivers, those who are caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who will need caregivers.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist.

Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.

I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.

One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won't accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Who wants to be normal when you can be unique?

Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.

I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our countryenergy and malaise.

You must give your own story to the world.

As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.

The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

To live in a world where truth matters and justice, however late, really happens, that world would be heaven enough for us all.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

Big Sur is at the end of the continent. It attracts really crazy people.

Two problems of our country - energy and malaise.

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.

Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.