“Alpha Phi Alpha, the oldest of Negro Fraternities, with all of its members presumably far above the average American and having a good practical understanding of the salient factors involved in the Negro's problem, and which a membership upwards of eight thousand men, should be able to take into their hands the leadership in the Negro's struggle for status.” MenShouldProblemHandsAbleUnderstandingStruggleInvolvedThousandMembersAverageEightPracticalsFactorsMembershipFraternityAlphas Author:Jewel
“The average prison term for a convicted murderer in America is 6.5 years. The average tenure for a member of Congress is 13 years. We've got it backwards. We are giving early release to the wrong criminal class.” GivingYearsAmericaTermClassMembersPrisonCongressAverageCriminalsReleaseBackwardsMurdererTenure Author:Pat Robertson
“The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15 years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less than three. We've got that backward.” YearsThreeTermMembersCongressAverageCriminalsLength Author:Oliver North
“If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.” IfsMenShouldChristChurchRevolutionMembersLaysNotionAverageMinistersShort Time Author:D. Elton Trueblood
“Just look at that Forbes 400. Takes a billion three to get on the Forbes 400 this year. And the aggregate wealth is just staggering. And those people are paying less percentage of their total income to the federal government than their receptionists are. [...] I'll bet a million dollars against any member of the Forbes 400 who challenges - me that the average for the Forbes 400 will be less than the average of their receptionists.” PeopleYearsLooksGovernmentThreeChallengesWealthMillionsMembersDollarsAverageBillionsIncomeFederal GovernmentPercentagesMillion DollarsStaggeringForbesReceptionists Author:Warren Buffett
“The average American has separated his private life from his existence as a member of his society, and leaves that to the specialists in the government to take care of.” GovernmentCareExistenceMembersAverageTake CarePrivate LifeSpecialists Author:Erich Fromm
“I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.” WorldTwoWarWholeHoursInvolvedMembersAverageFranceWar Of The WorldsWorld War ISurvivedRunnersUnclesMemorialFamily MembersTrenchesLife SpanAverage Life Author:Ben Barnes