When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. Dec 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy? Dec 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other. Dec 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. Dec 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both. Dec 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. Dec 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. Dec 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. Dec 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man. Dec 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter. Dec 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty. Dec 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. Dec 06, 2024 - Fabian Biese>