We must all raise war against ignorance.

— Sunday Adelaja

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.

— Mike Norton

Sisters in battle, I am shield and blade to you. As I breathe, your enemies will know no sanctuary. While I live, your cause is mine.

— Leigh Bardugo

Many losses have gone sinking daily by our inability to recognize the great deal of power reserved in us. Watch out and make it real because soon, it's going to be your turn to shine!

— Israelmore Ayivor

Anger ... It's a paralyzing emotion ... You can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... It's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... And anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever.'[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.].

— Toni Morrison

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

— Rick Perry

The more powerful the powerful appear the more invisible they become, said Armando. This used to work differently than now. In the old days it was said that the powerful merged with the divine and the divine was all that one saw. But now the powerful have merged with the shadow, really with death, and when you encounter them they are really hard to see.

— Alice Walker

The vanities of life:pleasure, possession, position and power.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Bradshaw especially didn't like the use of the word 'experiment' in regard to social conditions. Experiments included of necessity, expendable components. Failure was a precursor to success. When the components were human, who had the audacity to use, lose them, toss them away?

— Bernadette Pajer

The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature is really the danger most to be feared, and will continue to be so for many years to come. The tyranny of the executive power will come in its turn, but at a more distant period.

— Thomas Jefferson