Top 43 Junius Quotes
#1. ANT (ANT) n.s.[aemett, Sax. which Junius imagines, not without probability, to have been first contracted to aemt, and then softened to ant.]An emmet; a pismire. A small insect that lives in great numbers together in hillocks.
Samuel Johnson
#2. THE Right Honorable Edward Junius Carsington, Earl of Hargate, had five sons, which was three more than he needed.
Loretta Chase
#3. The names of all fine authors are fictitious ones, far more so than that of Junius,
simply standing, as they do, for the mystical, ever-eluding Spirit of all Beauty, which ubiquitously possesses men of genius.
Herman Melville
#4. By the middle to the end of the 1970s, Black Power as we envisioned was a dream deferred. And I was no longer in a position to awaken the minds of the people about what was happening.
Junius Williams
#5. The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
Junius
#6. The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
Junius
#7. The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate.
Marcus Junius Brutus The Younger
#8. How much easier is it to be generous than just.
Junius
#9. The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.
Junius
#10. The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.
Junius
#11. There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and in public.
Junius Williams
#13. I had never run a campaign, but I was an organizer. My job was to create momentum by mobilizing the constituency we had, which I was positioned to do.
Junius Williams
#14. All despotism is bad; but the worst is that which works with the machinery of freedom.
Junius
#15. There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
Junius
#17. But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents taught us that in order to succeed, we 'had to be twice as good as white folks.' We were constantly being prepared to enter a world dominated by whites.
Junius Williams
#18. The youth were to be trained to be the vanguard of the next battlefront, whatever that was. I knew within my heart that the Gibson experiment in city hall would attract enemies, so I intended to teach these young people how to fight on this new battlefield.
Junius Williams
#19. I had no way of predicting that Selma to Montgomery was indeed to be the last great civil rights march of the era, and that everything afterward would indeed by 'post-civil rights.
Junius Williams
#20. Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.
Junius
#21. It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.
Junius
#22. Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
Junius
#23. Integrity is praised and then left out in the cold.
Junius
#24. The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the happiness and aggrandizement of one, or a few, and to this the public felicity, and every other interest must submit.
Marcus Junius Brutus The Younger
#25. When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.
Junius
#26. One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
Junius
#27. The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.
Junius
#28. Let all your views in life be directed to a solid, however moderate, independence; without it no man can be happy, nor even honest.
Junius
#29. Knocking on doors wasn't working. We had to try something else. Remember the kids whose natural curiosity brought them into our little office on the corner? We set up a Freedom School that was fashioned after the SNCC Freedom Schools in Mississippi and other places.
Junius Williams
#30. It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
Junius
#31. It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.
Junius
#32. There was an aura about King that was unforgettable. I seem him now in my mind's eye: collected, peaceful, calm. He was in his element and totally in command of himself and the situation.
Junius Williams
#33. So on June 16, 1970, history was made in Newark. Ken Gibson became the first black mayor of a major Northeastern city.
Junius Williams
#34. We learned how to envision a different neighborhood, fought for the resources to make it happen, and in March 1968, through the Medical School Agreements, had been given the green light to proceed. All we had to do was make it happen
and ascend to a new level of power in the community.
Junius Williams
#35. What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
[Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]
Marcus Junius Brutus The Younger
#36. Life was not always so peaceful and rewarding at NAPA (the office). Sometime during 1968, I cam back to the office and found the plate glass window shattered. I asked Ab what happened, and he strangely knew nothing.
Junius Williams
#37. The enemy was not the Klan but the inside-outside lock that racism and classism had on the minds of the people: It operated from the inside through self-hate and self-doubt, and from the outside through the police, carnivorous landlords, and the welfare system.
Junius Williams
#38. Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.
Junius
#40. Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.
Junius
#41. Black power showed up in different ways, depending on the goals of the group.
Junius Williams
#42. It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason of it is so dear in argument that it hardly wants the confirmation of experience.
Junius
#43. Later that year, the Voting Rights Act opened the door for thousands to register for the first time.
Junius Williams
