Alfred Hershey quotes

“Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.”
-- Alfred Hershey

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“Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.”
-- Alfred Hershey

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“I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.”
-- Alfred Hershey

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“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.”

Source : "A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait". Book by Jervis Anderson, epigraph, p. VII, 1972.

“There is no justice in following unjust laws.”

Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press

“There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.”

“Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.”

“My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.”

“The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.”

“If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.”

“Thank God my best friend's a therapist.”

“A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution.”

“Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1906). “Pipes of Pan: Containing "From the Book of Myths", "From the Green Book of the Bards", "Songs of the Sea Children", "Songs from a Northern Garden", "From the Book of Valentines,"”