JESUS’
PRESENCE
And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.
Matthew 28:20b
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Sayings through the Centuries
His money owns him rather than he owns it.
Saint Cyprian, 258 A.D.
For to sin, indeed is human: but to persevere in sin, is not human: but altogether satanic.
Saint Joannes Chrysostomus, 407 A.D.
You rich men … remember that thy riches be not thy own, but thou art but a steward over them.
Bishop Hugh Latimer, 1595
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
Michael Montaigne, 1595
Oh God, Help us not to despise or oppose what we do not understand.
William Penn, 1701
Disrespect for women has invariably been the surest sign of moral corruption.
Baron Montesquieu, 1748
It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.
Cesare Bonesana, 1764
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
James Madison, 1788
He who allows oppression-shares the crime.
Erasmus Darwin, 1789
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and alter their constitutions of government.
George Washington, 1796
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just. And our motto, In God is our Trust.
Francis Scott Key, 1814
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann, 1850
Years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to proposition that all men are created equal. It is for us the living that government; of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish.
Abraham Lincoln, 1863
When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil teeming with consequences and injurious to morality and society.
Lord Acton, 6/11/1895
I beg of you to remember that whenever our life touches yours, we help or hinder. Whenever your life touches ours, you make us stronger or weaker. There is no escape. Man drags man down, or man lifts up man.
Booker T. Washington, 1896
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen Keller, 1902
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another, if it is not done.
George Bernard Shaw, 1906
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
S.G. Tallentyre, 1906
A teacher affects eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams, 1907
Always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice and corruption, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be afraid to attack wrong.
Joseph Pulitzer, 4/10/1907
The Government of the U.S. at present is a foster child of the special interests.
Woodrow Wilson, 1913
I put human rights above property rights.
Teddy Roosevelt, 11/15/1913
With all the liberating laws, woman continues to be a domestic slave because petty housework crushes, strangles, stultifies and degrades her.
Lenin, 1919
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells, 1920
It is only by the influences of individuals who can set an example whom the masses recognize as their leaders that they can be induced to submit to the labors and renunciations on which the existence of civilization depends.
Sigmund Freud, 1927
God damn the society that will permit such poverty! God damn the religions that stand for such a putrid system.
Sinclair Lewis, 1930
I see one third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill- nourished. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
F.D.R., 6/27/1936
What can be the personal freedom of an unemployed person who goes hungry.
Joseph Stalin, 1936
In every child who is born, the potentiality of the human race is born again.
James Agee, 1941
To accept civilization as it is , practically means accepting decay.
George Orwell, 1947
There is no constructive solution to the world’s problems, except eventually a world government capable of establishing law over the entire surface of the Earth.
Harold Clayton Urey, 1950
Man today is confronted with the most fundamental choice: not that between capitalism and communism, but that between robotism (of both the capitalism and communist variety), or humanistic communitarian socialism.
Erich Fromm, 1955
We seek victory not over any nation or people but over ignorance, poverty, disease, and human degradation wherever they may be found.
Edward Eisenhower, 4/19/1956
There can be no equal justice, where the kind of trail a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.
U.S. Supreme Court, 1956
Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power. Power recognizes only power.
Malcolm X, 1960
The road from political idealism to political realism is strewn with the corpses of our dead selves.
Andre’ Malraux, 12/9/1961
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
J.F.Kennedy, 1/10/1961
The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963
We choose to do things not because they are easy, but because they are hard; that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills. That challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and which we intend to win.
J.F.Kennedy, 1963
The time has now come for the nations of the world to submit to the just requisition of their conduct by international law.
Linus Pauling, 1965
You have only to wish it, and you can have a world without hunger, disease, cancer, and toil – anything you wish, wish anything and it can be done. Or else, we can exterminate ourselves… at present we are on the road to extermination. The present world crises can be solved only by a general human revolution against outdated concepts…due to the greed and lust for power of relatively small groups. The conspiracy of the few against the many. In much of the world half the children go to sleep hungry and we spend a trillion dollars on rubbish. We are all criminals.
Albert Szent-Cyrog, 2/23/1970
The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. We need to make vast changes in human behavior.
Burrhus Frederic Skinner, 1971;
The sophistication of technology have yet to control effectively the by-products of manufactured miraculous materials. These new materials, still subject to the order of nature’s cycles, penetrate the biosphere and eventually come to roost in modern man’s own vulnerable body. A compromise between technology and nature must take place, our Plundered Planet cries out for the day of reckoning!
Hammond World Atlas, 1988
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