QUOTE OF THE WEEK ARCHIVE

Week 20

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."

         -Harold Wilson.



"So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth."

         -Unknown Author.

Week 19

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."

         -Frederick Douglass.

Week 18

"To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right."

         -Confucius.

Week 17

"The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

         -Allan K. Chalmers.

Week 16

"A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time."

         -Alfred E. Wiggam.

Week 15

"No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it."

         -Marian Wright Edelman.

Week 14

"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."

         - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Week 13

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."

        - Abraham Lincoln.

Week 12

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

        - Anais Nin.

Week 11

"Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."

        - Martin Luther King Jr.

Week 10

"If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing."

        -Saint Augustine

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