#pow

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#achieve #achievement #course #desires #develop

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#make #men #real #tall #use

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#america #attach #black #clearly #defined

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#black #claims #community #does #heard

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be. ↗

— Robert Caro

#ballot #ballot box #better #box #choices

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#am #anybody #drunk #hope #i

I have had friends who have acted kindly towards me, and it has been my good fortune to have it in my power to give them substantial proofs of my gratitude. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#been #fortune #friends #give #good

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. ↗

— Willa Cather

#afar #always #being #church #coming

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#against #bills #civil #civil rights #commission

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#future #noble #noble deeds #passed #power