Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society... is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, th...e gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although leadership and the exercise of power are distinguishable activities, they overlap and interweave in important ways. Consi...der a corporate chief executive officer who has the gift for inspiring and motivating people, who has vision, who lifts the spirits of employees with a resulting rise in productivity and quality of product, and a drop in turnover and absenteeism. That is leadership. But evidence emerges that the company is falling behind in the technology race. One day with the stroke of a pen the CEO increases the funds available to the research division. That is the exercise of power. The stroke of a pen could have been made by an executive with none of the qualities one associates with leadership.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I bring you a warning. Every one of you listening to my voice. Tell the world. Tell this to everybody wherever they are: Watch the... skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When John Henry was a little fellow, You could hold him in the palm of your hand,... He said to his pa, "When I grow up I'm gonna be a steel-driving man. Gonna be a steel-driving man."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was not at all shocked with this execution at the time. John died seemingly without much pain. He was effectually hanged, the ro...pe having fixed upon his neck very firmly, and he was allowed to hang near three quarters of an hour; so that any attempt to recover him would have been in vain. I comforted myself in thinking that by giving up the scheme I had avoided much anxiety and uneasiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »