A Quote by Maya Angelou
When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement.
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When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky - in the big cities, too, for that matter.
The gentleman holds justice to be of highest importance. If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief.
Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he may be sincerely convinced of the advantages of conquering his passions without having yet obtained the victory as a man may be confident of the advantages of a voyage or a journey, without having courage or industry to undertake it, and may honestly recommend to others those attempts which he neglects himself.
Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.
He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.
Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.
A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.
If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.
If one neglects the laws of learning, a sentence is imposed that he is forever chained to his ignorance.
The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.
The weakest believer is a member of Christ as well as the strongest; and the weakest member of the body mystically shall not perish. Christ will cut off rotten members, but not weak members.
It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be argued th at a society that neglects its children and robs them of their human potential can extinguish itself without an external enemy.
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