Benjamin Hooks Quotes

#1. A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

Benjamin Hooks

#2. We're no longer arguing about riding in the back of the bus, but being the bus driver or the president of the bus company. We're not pushing for the right to buy the hot dog, but selling the hot dog and the right to own the hot dog franchise.

Benjamin Hooks

#3. [09:09] MAV: You're sending me into space in a convertible.
[09:24] HOUSTON: There will be Hab canvas covering the holes. It will provide enough aerodynamics in Mars's atmosphere.
[09:38] MAV: So it's a ragtop. Much better.

Andy Weir

#4. If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

Benjamin Hooks

#5. They're combining that new fertility drug with a birth control pill for people who don't want triplets.

Robert Orben

#6. The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

Benjamin Hooks

#7. If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing.

David Douglass

#8. Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

Benjamin Hooks

#9. Patriotism was a fool's religion, a crude social bonding device that defeated itself by inciting violence and inviting reprisal.

Crawford Kilian

#10. I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won't do.

Maggie Q

#11. Sin is the most expensive thing in the universe. Nothing else can cost so much.

Charles Grandison Finney