James E Cheek/howard University President 1968-1989

Famous quotes containing the words james e, james, cheek, howard, university and/or president:

    Reinhold Niebuhr observes that the sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
    Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    Claudio. The old ornament of his cheek hath already stuffed tennis-balls.
    Leonato. Indeed, he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Doctor, I want you to make it known to your government that it can trust us implicitly, for we do not want any of your territory. We only want your trade.
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

    The great problem of American life [is] the riddle of authority: the difficulty of finding a way, within a liberal and individualistic social order, of living in harmonious and consecrated submission to something larger than oneself.... A yearning for self-transcendence and submission to authority [is] as deeply rooted as the lure of individual liberation.
    Wilfred M. McClay, educator, author. The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America, p. 4, University of North Carolina Press (1994)

    Let him [the President] once win the admiration and confidence of the country, and no other single force can withstand him, no combination of forces will easily overpower him.... If he rightly interpret the national thought and boldly insist upon it, he is irresistible; and the country never feels the zest of action so much as when the President is of such insight and caliber.
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)