The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
Barack Obama's political roots are liberal, but he has always resisted buying into the brand of liberalism that denigrates American greatness and potential.
Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.
I want to deploy the leadership to meet the challenges that face us and to restore America's greatness.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.
I don't necessarily want to hear about my talent or my greatness as an actor.
I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
No, our greatness does not come from our government.
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.
The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.
I went to the Gobi Desert, even though I had no scenes there. This is the greatness of China, the landscape, even for us.
The only greatness for man is immortality.
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
You are watching what greatness is all about.
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable.
Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.
Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.
Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.