John Lewis (civil rights leader) (1940) American politician and civil rights leader
Source: Twitter https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/1211661167728480256, (18 December 2019)
2000s, 2001, Invasion of Afghanistan (October 2001)
John Lewis (civil rights leader) (1940) American politician and civil rights leader
Source: Twitter https://twitter.com/repjohnlewis/status/1211661167728480256, (18 December 2019)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (1876–1948) Founder and 1st Governor General of Pakistan
Speech at the opening ceremony of the State Bank of Pakistan, Karachi (1 July 1948)
Context: We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice. We will thereby be fulfilling our mission as Muslims and giving to humanity the message of peace which alone can save it and secure the welfare, happiness and prosperity of mankind.
Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President
Van Morrison (1945) Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
When Will I Ever Learn to Live in God?
Song lyrics, Avalon Sunset (1989)
“We socialists are freer because we are more fulfilled; we are more fulfilled because we are freer.”
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Context: We socialists are freer because we are more fulfilled; we are more fulfilled because we are freer. The skeleton of our complete freedom is already formed. The flesh and the clothing are lacking; we will create them.
“Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.”
Frantz Fanon book The Wretched of the Earth
Variant: Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.
Source: The Wretched of the Earth
“We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth.”
Novalis book Blüthenstaub
Fragment No. 32; Variant translations: We are on a mission.We are called to form the earth.
We are on a mission.We are called to educate the earth.
Blüthenstaub (1798)
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
Quoted in Doctor Goebbels: His Life and Death, Roger Manvell, Heinrich Fraenkel, New York, NY, Skyhorse Publishing, 2010 p. 25, conversation with Hertha Holk
1920s
David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author
3 June 2010 https://twitter.com/gtdguy/status/15286917857 <br class="br"> Official Twitter profile (@gtdguy) https://twitter.com/gtdguy