Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
I’m lucky to have a job doing something I really love to do, and I’m happy to accept the pressures of relentless deadlines or reader expectations as necessary evils. It’s probably not as stressful as mining coal or leading men into battle.
Beware of men who cry. It’s true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.
A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
It takes two men to make one brother.
You see all these movies of white men saving the world all the time.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.
Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?
It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Men are liars. We’ll lie about lying if we have to. I’m an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.
A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up.
Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.
