Ed Blackwell Quotes

None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.

Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

It is not easy to be a pioneer but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world.

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating!

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

Health has its science, as well as disease.

Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.

Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

I've worked in so many areas -- I'm sort of a dilettante. Basically, I'm not interested in doing research and I never have been.

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he'll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

It's not who you are, who you are friends, and how popular they are, it's just about how much you get out of each friendship and how much you learn from each one that really counts.

The first step on the path to positive change is acknowledgement that change is necessary and possible. Open yourself to the possibility of seeing the world in a new way. What do you have to lose?

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.

The law of grab is the primal law of infancy.

In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.

Social intercourse -- a very limited thing in a half civilized country, becomes in our centers of civilization a great power. . .

Don't get mad except on purpose.

We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.

I have nothing to do with counting the votes.

Any positive thinker is compelled to see everything in the light of his own convictions.

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.