Highest Common Factor

Famous quotes containing the words highest, common and/or factor:

    “If woman alone had suffered under these mistaken traditions [of women’s subordination], if she could have borne the evil by herself, it would have been less pitiful, but her brother man, in the laws he created and ignorantly worshipped, has suffered with her. He has lost her highest help; he has crippled the intelligence he needed; he has belittled the very source of his own being and dwarfed the image of his Maker.”
    —Clara Barton (1821–1912)

    “The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “You factor in racism as a reality and you keep moving.”
    —Jewell Jackson McCabe (b. 1945)