Source: Up from Slavery
“I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.”
James A. Garfield (1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being A Cyclopedia Of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (1908) by Tryon Edwards, p. 327
Variant: I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
Ray Kurzweil (1948) Author, scientist, inventor, and futurist
"The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)
Hari Punja (1936) Fijian businessman
Interview with the Fiji Times http://www.Fijitimes.com, 25 September 2005 (excerpts)
“Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t? - Damon”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Nightfall
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Jozef Israëls (1824–1911) Dutch painter
Quote from his letter, 23 March 1906, to F.W. Gusaulus in Toledo, (TMA); as cited in Jozef Israëls, 1824 – 1911, ed. Dieuwertje Dekkers; Waanders, Zwolle 1999, p. 306
This remark Israëls wrote 26 years after finishing the watercolor; probably it was a gift to the American art-critic
Quotes of Jozef Israels, after 1900
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2016, Presidential transition of Donald Trump (November 2016)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2011, Remarks on Egyptian protests (January 2011)
Context: When President Mubarak addressed the Egyptian people tonight, he pledged a better democracy and greater economic opportunity. I just spoke to him after his speech and I told him he has a responsibility to give meaning to those words, to take concrete steps and actions that deliver on that promise.
Violence will not address the grievances of the Egyptian people. And suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. What’s needed right now are concrete steps that advance the rights of the Egyptian people: a meaningful dialogue between the government and its citizens, and a path of political change that leads to a future of greater freedom and greater opportunity and justice for the Egyptian people.
