A Quote by Herman Melville

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

Herman Melville

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Conquest Love March May Mind Provinces Through Wild

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Herman Melville
American - Novelist
August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891

I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

Kailash Satyarthi

Here at CBS, spring also means March Madness. I love the name March Madness. I'm glad the PC police haven't made us change March Madness to early spring psychosis.

Craig Ferguson

Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.

Maxine Hong Kingston

In my view, the most important lesson we can learn from Dr. King is not what he said at the March on Washington but what he said and did after the march. In the years following the march, he did not play politics to see what crumbs a fundamentally corrupt system might toss to the beggars for justice.

Michelle Alexander

Comrade life, let us march faster, March faster through what's left of the five-year plan.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Dr. [Martin Luther] King led a very historic march here in Washington, D.C. It was a march for jobs and freedom. It was a march to raise expectations that this country could live up to its ideals. I have watched this debate, this conversation [betwin Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump] about bigotry, about racism, I find it all misplaced.

Donna Brazile

If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.

Stopford Brooke

At the women's march, we held signs that said, 'Today we march, tomorrow we run.' They didn't believe us, but it's coming to pass.

Ayanna Pressley

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Khalil Gibran

a windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton.

Julia Peterkin

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert H. Humphrey

In 1965, the attempted march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7 was planned to dramatize to the state of Alabama and to the nation that people of color wanted to register to vote.

John Lewis

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

Brian May

We'll be submitting healthcare sometime in early March [2017], mid March, and after that, we're going to come up, and we're doing very well on tax reform.

Donald Trump

The Million Man March would never have been successful if it were not for the women who stood with us and helped to organize to make the March what it eventually became.