Quotes About Melba Pattillo Beals

#1. Human laws made to direct the will ought to give precepts, and not counsels.

Baron De Montesquieu

#2. Thinking is thinking. It happens in spite of a person. ... I don't have any choice. This stuff I'm talking about is on my mind whether or not I want it to be. English Creek

Ivan Doig

#3. You only get so much time to do something that you enjoy or love to do. If you can continue doing it, you might as well, because I don't want to live in regret. I don't want to be the person sitting behind a desk, wondering, 'Did I do it right, did I finish it off, did I really give it my all?'

Troy Dumais

#4. The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence - to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences.

Melba Pattillo Beals

#5. I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

Niall Ferguson

#6. If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button.

Sam Levenson

#7. If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.

Adolf Hitler