malcolm x quotes on racism

History is past politics, and politics present history. ~John Robert Seeley, The Growth of British Policy



A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost



Old card players never die, they just shuffle away. ~Author Unknown



Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. ~E.W. Howe



I don't do alcohol anymore - I get the same effect just standing up fast. ~Author Unknown



Never trust a skinny ice cream man. ~Ben Cohen



To make a mountain of a mole-hill. ~Henry Ellis, Original Letters



Treaties are like roses and young girls - they last while they last. ~Charles de Gaulle



No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. ~John Donne



To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. ~Clara Ortega



I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. ~Winston Churchill



Always kiss your children goodnight - even if they're already asleep. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



Let us love the world to peace. ~Quoted in The Angels' Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994



It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby. ~Ashley Montague



If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. ~H.L. Mencken



I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. ~Sydney Smith



Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. ~Washington Irving



Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet



We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way. ~Author Unknown