AP Lang Frq 3 Useful Historical Quotes

Civil Obedience Gandhi's Quote about non-violence protest

"Shower what sufferings you like upon us, we will calmly endure all and not hurt a hair upon your body"

Civil Obedience Gandhi's Quote about how war declines progress

"The consequence [of violence] is not the progress of a nation but its decline"

Civil Obedience-Gandhi's Quote about how war can stop with 1 person

"No clapping is possible without two hands to do it, and no quarrel without two persons to make it"

What is an American- Michel-Guillaume Jean de Cevecoeur's quote about the reinvention and innovation of an American man

"The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must, therefore, entertain new ideas and form new opinions"

What is an American- Michel-Guillaume Jean de Cevecoeur's quote about how the ignorant characteristics of a country yield rioters and angry citizens

Can a wretch who wanders about, who works and starves, whose life is a continual scene of sore affliction of pinching penury—can that man call England or any other kingdom his country?"

What is an American- Michel-Guillaume Jean de Cevecoeur's quote about how immigrants seize American opportunities and live meaningful lives

"They [immigrants/emigrants] have taken root and flourished"

Lao Tzu

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” 

Marcus Aurelius

“Everything in any way beautiful has its beauty of itself, inherent and self-sufficient: praise is no part of it. At any rate, praise does not make anything better or worse.”

Sun Tzu

“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”

Plato

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”

Thucydides

“It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs.”

Letter From Birmingham Jail

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”

Voltaire

“Main is free at the moment he wishes to be”

Franz Kafka

“It is often safer to be in chains than to be free”

Albert Camus

“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear”

William Hazlitt (having money)

“Literally and truly, one cannot get on well in the world without money”

William Hazlitt (wanting money)

“To be in want of it, is to pass through life with little credit or pleasure”

Michelle Obama Closing Remarks as First Lady (immigrants)

“If you or your parents are immigrants, know that you are part of a proud American tradition—the infusion of new cultures, talents, and ideas, generation after generation, that has made us the greatest country on earth”

Michelle Obama Closing Remarks as First Lady (freedoms)

“You have to do your part to preserve and protect those freedoms”

Michelle Obama Closing Remarks as First Lady (education)

“But with a lot of hard work and a good education, anything is possible.”

Sonia Sotomayor (formation of personal identity)

“My identity was forged and closely nurtured by my family through our shared experiences and traditions”

Sonia Sotomayor (American identity)

“America has a deeply confused image of itself that is in perpetual tension”

Maxine Hong Kingston

“I think that individual voices are not as strong as community voices. If we can make a community of voices, then we can speak more truth”

The Prince (infamy of cruelty)

“A prince must not worry about the infamy of being considered cruel when it is a matter of keeping his subjects united and loyal”

The Prince (hesitation)

“Men are less hesitant about injuring someone who makes himself feared”

William Hazlitt (rules and models)

“rules and models destory genius and art”

Allegory of the Cave (shadows)

“And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves”

Allegory of the Cave (felicated)

“He would felicitate himself on the change, and pity them(those still in the cave)”

Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr (lukewarm)

“Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection”

Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr (justice)

“justice too long delayed is justice denied”

Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr (outsider)

"“Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.”

Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr (privilege)

“privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.”

Letter From Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr (wait)

“This ‘wait’ has almost always meant "never."

Thoreau on money

“Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue

Thoreau on honest men

“What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot today? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they do nothing in earnest and with effect.”