Civilization is the making of civil persons.
Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI.
Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
And what sort of philosophical doctrine is thi - that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others.
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!
Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.
Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. It is a scourge for humanity, and America must project its values and protect vulnerable persons.
To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
To say the U.S. government is targeting U.S. persons, to listen to their phone calls and read their emails, is just false.
The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.
I am so proud of being a Paralympian because I think the Games are a very good platform for disabled persons to perform themselves. Within the Paralympics movement, it's not just talk about excellence; it's not just talk about the competition. It's also talk about the equality and how your world accepts those disabled people.
The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.
With but a few exceptions, we don't have this personal study under masters any more. Craftsmanship has sunk very low. We no longer have any universally creative persons who are able to guide young learners not only in technical matters but also, at the same time, in a formal way.
God is no respecter of persons or causes.
From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
I don't have any opinions about Russians. There are celebrity persons in each country. Different people do different things.
The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.
A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration.
You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for.
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.