Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.
With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.
The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.
Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.
All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.
Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and was said to be sure that if he stuck something about womens' rights into it, it would never pass. The bill passed anyway, though, much to the chagrin of a certain wiener from Virginia.
No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.
We chose the most interesting image available to us to illustrate the theme of the cover, which is what we always try to do. We apply the same test to photographs of any public figure, male or female: does the image convey what we are saying? That is a gender-neutral standard.