You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying. Marcus Garvey Yes.

John Milton Quotes English - Poet December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674 He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. John Milton Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. John Milton The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. John Milton To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. John Milton When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. John Milton Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. John Milton A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. John Milton Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. John Milton The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. John Milton Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live. John Milton Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right. John Milton He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. John Milton No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. John Milton Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself. John Milton They also serve who only stand and wait. John Milton Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth. John Milton None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence. John Milton Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self. John Milton The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. John Milton Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. John Milton He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. John Milton Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship. John Milton Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness. John Milton Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk. John Milton Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. John Milton Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe. John Milton Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. John Milton For what can war, but endless war, still breed? John Milton True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. John Milton Redd Foxx Quotes American - Actor December 9, 1922 - October 11, 1991 Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. Redd Foxx Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top. Redd Foxx Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. Redd Foxx This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey! Redd Foxx I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know. Redd Foxx The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be. Redd Foxx Henry W. Kendall Quotes American - Scientist December 9, 1926 - February 15, 1999 If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not. Henry W. Kendall The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced. Henry W. Kendall We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces. Henry W. Kendall Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so. Henry W. Kendall We must... guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions. Henry W. Kendall Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive. Henry W. Kendall Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction. Henry W. Kendall Benny Green Quotes British - Musician December 9, 1927 - June 22, 1998 We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal. Benny Green The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in. Benny Green I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same. Benny Green The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations. Benny Green Just to be around that, to feel a part of it and be able to integrate the experience while I was with the Messengers, of going and playing gigs with other drummers, gave me the chance to realize that it was not just me that was making it happen. Benny Green He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer. Benny Green A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. Benny Green The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day from the time I was born. Benny Green Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as if the bottom dropped out. Benny Green No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, I think in 1989? Benny Green We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We're doing what we enjoy, and we're not just playing for each other, we're playing for the people. Benny Green You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music. Benny Green I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares. Benny Green Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed. Benny Green I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what he's playing. Benny Green I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you. Benny Green Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much. Benny Green Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father. Benny Green I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't going on in other parts of the country. Now I realize that I was lucky. Benny Green Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclipsed. Benny Green Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention. Benny Green Just to have that sense of family, it gives you something that you know you need to take care of for the rest of your life. People gave it to him, and he passed it on to us. Benny Green I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape. Benny Green Dick Van Patten Quotes American - Actor December 9, 1928 - June 23, 2015 I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way. Dick Van Patten I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings. Dick Van Patten The only honest reaction and true loyalty that we get is from our animals. Dick Van Patten I've titled this book 'Eighty Is Not Enough' not just for the obvious play on words, but as a way of expressing the single idea that has governed my entire life, that every moment of life is precious, that every step we take is an adventure, that every day on earth is a gift from God. Dick Van Patten The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong. Dick Van Patten I'm always working on our home, but I want to keep the old look to it. Dick Van Patten If I was good each week, my father would take me to a different pet store each Saturday. I had a snake, horny toads, turtles, lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs... I kept my alligator in the bathtub until it got too big. Dick Van Patten To be hungry must be awful. Dick Van Patten People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it. Dick Van Patten We're feeding all these zoos. And that's getting bigger and bigger. Dick Van Patten I love cats. Dick Van Patten We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype. Dick Van Patten I got what they called a diabetic stroke. Here's what it is, my left hand and my left leg. You know when your leg falls asleep? It's like that constantly. It's not painful, but it's so annoying. My leg is all tingly and my arm is all tingly. Dick Van Patten I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize. Dick Van Patten It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here. Dick Van Patten I like to do TV series. I think they're so comfortable. You're doing the same part every week. Dick Van Patten I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well. Dick Van Patten From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was. Dick Van Patten I appreciate Eight is Enough. It made me recognizable. Dick Van Patten I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It's a crime not to help them. Dick Van Patten I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left. Dick Van Patten I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living. Dick Van Patten We donate a lot of food to rescue organizations. Dick Van Patten We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it's not going through the roof the way the dog food is, I think it will catch on eventually. Dick Van Patten You have a laugh line; don't accentuate it. You get a bigger laugh. Dick Van Patten You're working with the same people, and there's a lot of recognition. I like to do series best. I really do. Dick Van Patten I wasn't worried about unemployment. Dick Van Patten My mother was aggressive - the typical stage mother. Dick Van Patten Tom Bradford is a lot like the real me. He's a man who always put his career second to his family. As long as everything was OK at home, he was OK, too. Dick Van Patten The family's first, and the career is second. I could get fired from a show. As long as everything's okay with my family, it really would not bother me. Dick Van Patten I never thought radio would fizzle out. Dick Van Patten I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another. Dick Van Patten My four friends were John Kerr, who became a star, Paul Newman, Jimmy Dean, and Jack Lemmon. Dick Van Patten We're very lucky people, doing something that we really love to do. I feel privileged to have been an actor all my life. Dick Van Patten I was in 27 Broadway plays in a row as a kid, and in between, I learned how to play the horses from the stagehands. Dick Van Patten I've been to more racetracks than any other person I've met. Almost every track, missing only a few of the newer ones. Dick Van Patten It used to be said all horse players die broke - you can't beat the races. But today, with the Pick 6's and Superfectas, you can. Not that the odds aren't against you, but a good hit, and it's hard to blow that back. Dick Van Patten I've hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand. Dick Van Patten I may eat nine bowls of dog food, because eight isn't enough. Dick Van Patten For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people. Dick Van Patten I've had a great life. It was exciting. I worked with the most interesting people, and I traveled all over the country. Dick Van Patten

Reading the Stanton quotes, I must say that in a way we still struggle with with the same problems, if not officially, unofficially. The first Munch quote pretty well explains all of his work. Lilian Smith quote #2 is so right.

Maxwell Anderson Quotes American - Playwright December 15, 1888 - February 28, 1959 The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. Maxwell Anderson If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right. Maxwell Anderson This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it. Maxwell Anderson There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime. Maxwell Anderson He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods. Maxwell Anderson J. Paul Getty Quotes American - Businessman December 15, 1892 - June 6, 1976 Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J. Paul Getty If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man. J. Paul Getty The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations. J. Paul Getty Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. J. Paul Getty Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation. J. Paul Getty The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. J. Paul Getty I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success. J. Paul Getty The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips. J. Paul Getty In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people. J. Paul Getty The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. J. Paul Getty In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. J. Paul Getty Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? J. Paul Getty I've never been one to bet on the weather. J. Paul Getty You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred. J. Paul Getty Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. J. Paul Getty My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see. J. Paul Getty There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune. J. Paul Getty If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. J. Paul Getty The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor. J. Paul Getty Oil is like a wild animal. Whoever captures it has it. J. Paul Getty If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. J. Paul Getty Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there. J. Paul Getty The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances. J. Paul Getty You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift. J. Paul Getty I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily. J. Paul Getty Five wives can't all be wrong. J. Paul Getty I buy when other people are selling. J. Paul Getty To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business. J. Paul Getty My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil. J. Paul Getty My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing. J. Paul Getty Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich. J. Paul Getty My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols. J. Paul Getty I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue. J. Paul Getty Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses. J. Paul Getty I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity. J. Paul Getty What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. J. Paul Getty I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life. J. Paul Getty There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. J. Paul Getty I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put. J. Paul Getty How does one measure the success of a museum? J. Paul Getty No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist. J. Paul Getty Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. J. Paul Getty Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock. J. Paul Getty I can afford to say what I wish. J. Paul Getty I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. J. Paul Getty There are at least 50 cities in the world that would have liked to obtain the Getty Collection. J. Paul Getty Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. J. Paul Getty I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them. J. Paul Getty A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement. J. Paul Getty A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature. J. Paul Getty During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. J. Paul Getty The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services. J. Paul Getty Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. J. Paul Getty I am - and have always been - a Methodist. J. Paul Getty Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s. J. Paul Getty I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. J. Paul Getty Oscar Niemeyer Quotes Brazilian - Architect December 15, 1907 - December 5, 2012 Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple. Oscar Niemeyer The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go. Oscar Niemeyer Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man. Oscar Niemeyer I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness. Oscar Niemeyer Surprise is key in all art. Oscar Niemeyer It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. Oscar Niemeyer There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space. Oscar Niemeyer The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness. Oscar Niemeyer Form follows beauty. Oscar Niemeyer Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. Oscar Niemeyer Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. Oscar Niemeyer Architecture is invention. Oscar Niemeyer Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. Oscar Niemeyer I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say. Oscar Niemeyer For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity. Oscar Niemeyer I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two. Oscar Niemeyer My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.' Oscar Niemeyer Sometimes I lose a whole morning waiting on journalists and other people who look for me. But I always find some time for reading, talking to my friends and feeling what is happening in this world. Oscar Niemeyer I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much. Oscar Niemeyer It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms. Oscar Niemeyer I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now. Oscar Niemeyer When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since. Oscar Niemeyer Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise. Oscar Niemeyer When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance. Oscar Niemeyer I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs. Oscar Niemeyer Muriel Rukeyser Quotes American - Poet December 15, 1913 - February 12, 1980 Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed. Muriel Rukeyser The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. Muriel Rukeyser Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. Muriel Rukeyser The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. Muriel Rukeyser The journey is my home. Muriel Rukeyser I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. Muriel Rukeyser In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty. Muriel Rukeyser However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole. Muriel Rukeyser I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride. Muriel Rukeyser Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems. Muriel Rukeyser Exchange is creation. Muriel Rukeyser If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. Muriel Rukeyser Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires. Muriel Rukeyser A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art. Muriel Rukeyser I learned that I had been brought up as a protected, blindfolded daughter. Muriel Rukeyser The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry. Muriel Rukeyser The town of Gauley Bridge stands as a pattern for all those places where people are linked even in the middle of their suffering, where people fight against an evil condition so that other people need not go through the same fight. Muriel Rukeyser I hope for quick, fluent copy and memorable pictures. The words would not 'describe' the pictures; the pictures would not 'illustrate' the words. Together, they would carry a stamp and tell a story. Muriel Rukeyser I should like to use another word: 'audience' or 'reader' or 'listener' seems inadequate. I suggest the old word 'witness,' which includes the act of seeing and knowing by personal experience, as well as the act of giving evidence. Muriel Rukeyser It is the single image, as used in a photograph or a painting - or the frame of a film - to which words have been added to enlarge the context. The method is not the same as that by which most paintings are named. It is closer in its performance to what dialogue does to a movie, to what the caption does to a good poster. Muriel Rukeyser Editors have grown timid... a brave advance is almost inevitably followed by quick back-tracking, generally by dilution and debasement of the original intention. Muriel Rukeyser One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure. Muriel Rukeyser The advertising men made it clear that there were two ways of looking at ideas in a war against fascism. Those of us who were working on the project believed ideas were to be fought for; the advertising men believed they were to be sold. The audience, those at home in wartime, were not 'citizens' or 'people.' They were 'customers.' Muriel Rukeyser Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document. Muriel Rukeyser