Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variant: Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Context: Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
Context: Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
1990s, I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)
From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, ACTIVISM
“We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.”
Source: Hitch-22: A Memoir
Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President
In a Interview With Shirley K. Cohen http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/32/1/OH_Patterson.pdf
“Gottfried, like any true dictator, liked to surround himself with bland obliging ciphers.”
Source: The Stochastic Man (1975), Chapter 7 (p. 27)
2013, Second Inaugural Address (January 2013)
Context: We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms. The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries, we must claim its promise. That’s how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure -- our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That’s what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared.
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
