Quote for the Day! - Archive

Monday, Feb 28, 2022

“God has always given me the strength to say what is right.”

Rosa Parks
Activist in the American Civil Rights Movement.
(1913 - 2005)

Friday, Feb 25, 2022

“Our world no longer hears God because it is constantly speaking at a devastating speed and volume, in order to say nothing.”

Robert Cardinal Sarah
Guinean Priest, Bishop & Author.
(1945 - present)

Thursday, Feb 24, 2022

“I shall always feel grateful that my ancestors were transplanted to North America. It is the best place in the world that I have found to live and leave one's mark.”

Charles Clinton Spaulding
American entrepreneur and business leader.
(1874 - 1952)

Wednesday, Feb 23, 2022

“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”

Nelson Mandela
President of South Africa & Nobel Laureate.
(1918 - 2013)

Tuesday, Feb 22, 2022

“Let not the spirit of the father behold the son robbed of that liberty which he died to establish; but let the motto of our legislature be: The law knows no distinction.”

James Forten
American abolitionist, businessman and philanthropist.
(1766 - 1842)

Monday, Feb 21, 2022

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”

Muhammad Ali
American professional boxer, activist and philanthropist.
(1942 - 2016)

Friday, Feb 18, 2022

“Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, 'Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?' I felt a great desire to see Him, to know Him and to pay Him homage.”

Saint Josephine Bakhita
Sudanese-Italian Canossian religious sister & former slave.
(1869 - 1947)

Thursday, Feb 17, 2022

“I love the land that gave me birth; I love the Stars and Stripes.”

John Roy Lynch
American Congressman, writer, attorney, military officer, author & former slave.
(1847 - 1939)

Wednesday, Feb 16, 2022

“Do your best and let God do the rest.”

Ben Carson
American physician, author, philanthropist & Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
(1951 - present)

Tuesday, Feb 15, 2022

“Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.”

Walter E. Williams
American economist, educator and author.
(1936 - 2020)

Monday, Feb 14, 2022

“Nothing is more beautiful than love. Indeed, faith and hope will end when we die, whereas love, that is, charity, will last for eternity.”

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
Italian Catholic activist & member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic.
(1901 - 1925)

Friday, Feb 11, 2022

“Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.”

Saint Augustine
Famous sinner turned Saint & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(354AD - 430AD)

Thursday, Feb 10, 2022

“Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.”

Langston Hughes
American poet, social activist, novelist and columnist.
(1901 - 1967)

Wednesday, Feb 09, 2022

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”

Maya Angelou
American poet, memoirist and civil rights activist.
(1928 - 2014)

Tuesday, Feb 08, 2022

“The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.”

Walter E. Williams
American economist, educator and author.
(1936 - 2020)

Monday, Feb 07, 2022

“Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.”

James Baldwin
American novelist, essayist, poet and activist.
(1924 - 1987)

Friday, Feb 04, 2022

“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”

Saint Augustine
Famous sinner turned Saint & One of the Thirty-Seven Doctors of the Catholic Church.
(354AD - 430AD)

Thursday, Feb 03, 2022

“Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.”

Thurgood Marshall
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
(1908 - 1993)

Wednesday, Feb 02, 2022

“Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little in the way of education about what our Constitution means and why it was written. Thus, we've fallen easy prey to charlatans, quacks, and hustlers.”

Walter E. Williams
American economist, educator and author.
(1936 - 2020)

Tuesday, Feb 01, 2022

“So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.”

Thomas Sowell
American economist & National Humanities Medal recipient.
(1930 - present)