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Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“The one who is happy, that's the one who is right.”

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Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer and thinker, a prominent representative of 19th-century Russian literature. His works deeply revealed social contradictions and human nature, and had a profound impact on the world. more

“It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order.”

“The USA and USSR will only agree when shrimps learn to fly.”

Agree Usa Ussr Shrimp Learn To Fly

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing, and activities on the ground, that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power throughout which you bring about redistributive change. And in some ways, we still suffer from that.”

“The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.”

Convince Candle Battlefields Coverage Vietnamese Carnage

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Pot had helped, and booze, maybe a little blow when you could afford it.”

Littles Blow Pot Booze Anti-american Dreams From My Father

Book:Dreams From My Father

Source: Dreams From My Father

“Later, I would realize that the position of most black students in predominantly white colleges was already too tenuous, our identities too scrambled, to admit to ourselves that our black pride remained incomplete. And to admit our doubt and confusion to whites, to open up our psyches to general examination by those who had caused so much of the damage in the first place, seemed ludicrous, itself an expression of self-hatred - for there seemed no reason to expect that whites would look at our private struggles as a mirror into their own souls, rather than yet more evidence of black pathology.”

Quote by Leo Tolstoy

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