Individual Quotes

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others.

We don’t need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

I met Rosa Parks when I was 17. I met Dr. [Martin Luther] King when I was 18. These two individuals inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble. So I got in good trouble, necessary trouble.

Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

Woman must have a purse of her own, and how can this be so long as the law denies to the wife all right to both the individual and the joint earnings?

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

The principle of self-government cannot be violated with impunity. The individual’s right to it is sacred – regardless of class, caste, race, color, sex or any other accident or incident of birth.