Charles Rangel Quotes
Sad Quotes by Charles Rangel

I, for one, would think both about how far we have
come as a country and how much further we need to go
to erase racism and discrimination from our society.
- Charles Rangel

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are
rooted in the system of slavery.
- Charles Rangel

I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out.
- Charles Rangel

Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.
- Charles Rangel

I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq.
- Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.
- Charles Rangel

Full participation in government and society has been
a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship
and equal protection of all.
- Charles Rangel

Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital,
construction, service and hotel industries,
but there is also a growing professional sector.
- Charles Rangel

We don't windsurf in Harlem.
- Charles Rangel

Regardless of the nature of their crime or any rehabilitation that may have occurred,
these ex-felons cannot participate in the decision-making
process of this great Nation.
- Charles Rangel

At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi
killing field and the U.S.
is stuck in a quagmire.
- Charles Rangel

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was indeed a vital instrument of democracy,
ensuring the integrity and reliability of a democratic
process that we as a Country hold so dear.
- Charles Rangel

Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances
make military service a viable career choice are dying
bravely in a war with no end in sight.
- Charles Rangel

The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.
- Charles Rangel

There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam
Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.
- Charles Rangel

The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape
the storm were predominantly Black.
- Charles Rangel

Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse
since Aristide's removal,
and continue to deteriorate.
- Charles Rangel

The President is destroying the fabric of America with
a combined policy of war,
tax cuts for the wealthy, and reductions in spending for domestic needs.
- Charles Rangel

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to
brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought
justice and equality and it sought to respond to the
young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.
- Charles Rangel

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to
the fight against terrorism,
but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic
and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.
- Charles Rangel

We love the ability of the people to influence the
actions of decision-makers,
of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated
to office by the will of voters,
and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.
- Charles Rangel

Thousands of people may have been killed by hurricane
Katrina and many more could die in its aftermath because
of the President's refusal to heed the calls of governors
for help in repairing the infrastructure in their states.
- Charles Rangel

We owe it to the flood victims of New Orleans to give
them truthful answers as to why this event took place
and to assure our citizens that tragedies like this will never happen again.
- Charles Rangel

If we believe in our current penal process,
then the penalties imposed by judges and juries should
be the only sanctions for one's crime,
not the invisible sanctions of the legislature.
- Charles Rangel

Now is the time for the U.S.
and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the
slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward
in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that
was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.
- Charles Rangel

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin

If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

Jealousy is the result of one's lack
of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.
- Sasha Azevedo

In a separation it is the one
who is not really in love
who says the more tender things.
- Marcel Proust

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Carl Bard

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony

Time goes by a lot slower when you miss the one you love.
- Anonymous

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
- Henry David Thoreau

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil
to one who is striking at the root.
- Henry David Thoreau

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill

By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy
between the genius and his human qualities
that one has to ask oneself whether
a little less talent might not have been better.
- Carl Jung

A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.
- Jerome Blattner

When we lose one we love,
our bitterest tears are called forth
by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
- Maurice Maeterlinck

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,
it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Oscar Wilde

The philosophy of the school room in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa

Most of us spend our lives as if
we have another one in the bank.
- Ben Irwin

I always like walking in the rain,
so no one can see me crying.
- Charlie Chaplin

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap
whence everyone must take an equal portion,
most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates

Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein

People do not like to think.
If one thinks, one must reach conclusions.
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller

Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Stupidity is also a gift of God,
but one mustn't misuse it.
- Pope John Paul II

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot

Sometimes it happens that a man's circle
of horizon becomes smaller and smaller,
and as the radius approaches zero
it concentrates on one point.
And then that becomes his point of view.
- David Hilbert

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition.
The immature mind often mistakes one for the other,
or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -
in fact, they're almost incompatible;
one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil.
- Robert Heinlein

There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

We are all atheists about most of the gods
that societies have ever believed in.
Some of us just go one god further.
- Richard Dawkins