The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
Music makes us want to live. You don’t know how many times people have told me that they’d been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That’s the power music has.
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity.
It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
One ever feels his twoness – an American, a Negro two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.