Eric Holder quote: "Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards."

In January 2013, I told the people in the Justice Department after the re-election that I wanted to ...
ERIC HOLDER

I don't have any intention of resigning.
ERIC HOLDER

Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their righ...
ERIC HOLDER

People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they ...
ERIC HOLDER

Kids who I grew up with, who I played ball with, basketball, baseball, and went to parties with - fo...
ERIC HOLDER

Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.
ERIC HOLDER

I urge the citizens of Ferguson who have been peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to ...
ERIC HOLDER

Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police...
ERIC HOLDER

Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and...
ERIC HOLDER

We are not programmed to bury our kids.
ERIC HOLDER

Whether it is an attempt to bomb the New York City subway system, an attempt to bring down an airpla...
ERIC HOLDER

I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detr...
ERIC HOLDER

Studies show that if people think that they are treated fairly by the police, that matters almost mo...
ERIC HOLDER

The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs...
ERIC HOLDER

In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost ...
ERIC HOLDER

The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.
ERIC HOLDER

It pains me whenever there's the death of a law enforcement official.
ERIC HOLDER

When it comes to police officers, I have concerns about the training that they receive. This whole n...
ERIC HOLDER

One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if yo...
ERIC HOLDER

Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair an...
ERIC HOLDER

Any decision to use lethal force against a United States citizen - even one intent on murdering Amer...
ERIC HOLDER

Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the ...
ERIC HOLDER

I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove du...
ERIC HOLDER

You keep your eyes on the prize, you try to do what's right, and eventually, you'll reach yo...
ERIC HOLDER

I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial ...
ERIC HOLDER

Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and...
ERIC HOLDER

The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will neve...
ERIC HOLDER

I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American Presid...
ERIC HOLDER

You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
ERIC HOLDER

Enforcement priorities and arrest patterns must not lead to disparate treatment under the law, even ...
ERIC HOLDER

Michael Brown's tragic death has revealed a deep distrust between some in the Ferguson community...
ERIC HOLDER

I grew up in the Justice Department. I served 12 years as a line lawyer in the public integrity sect...
ERIC HOLDER

This is going to be a very transparent Justice Department. But I'm not gonna sacrifice the safet...
ERIC HOLDER

I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently pro...
ERIC HOLDER

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to u...
ERIC HOLDER

I think one of the things that I don't think people focus on is that there are some red states t...
ERIC HOLDER

It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily ...
ERIC HOLDER

Well, I think the American people have to understand that the Mexican government is committed, in a ...
ERIC HOLDER

We wanted to create a space where people can come down, have a bit of fun, take a load off.
ELIZABETH HOLDER

The family was lovely. But the machine around it was punishing.
ELIZABETH HOLDER

There was no competition. We tapped into the neighborhood crowd, and they're really loyal.
ELIZABETH HOLDER

We know we have workers on Medicaid. We're trying to improve that. We're asking the state to help us...
JENNIFER HOLDER

They are all strippers.
LOUIS HOLDER

...perhaps we only notice things when the time comes for us to pay attention to them. When they need...
NANCY HOLDER

We want to win the ACC and the NCAA [Tournaments]. If we don't do that then our season was a flop.
IAN HOLDER

It was exciting to get the start. I just tried to bring some energy.
IAN HOLDER

It should only take us seven months to have the store up.
JENNIFER HOLDER

We're proud that our solution oriented approach has helped 160,000 previously uninsured Americans ge...
JENNIFER HOLDER

Give us a little bit of credit where we actually deserve credit.
JENNIFER HOLDER

Writing to you is like some embarrassing remake of Waiting For Godot. Why don't you jerk off on pape...
MARYSE HOLDER

The fly that should be dead and the dog that should be dead in the house that should be dead, and th...
NANCY HOLDER

It's always going to be competitive with everyone fighting for time. That's what I think creates a w...
IAN HOLDER

As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had exi...
NANCY HOLDER

It's extremely difficult to pull off something like this because there are myriad issues. Ocean Nati...
RICK HOLDER

We are constantly looking at locations and real estate, and we are always looking for opportunities.
JENNIFER HOLDER

I think that transparency is key to this debate.
JENNIFER HOLDER

You can get a hometown phone number so your relatives can dial a local number, and it's routed to yo...
LOUIS HOLDER

It's because she looks mean and tough.
LARRY HOLDER

There are sections of highways and roads where drivers need to pay extra attention, slow down, allow...
ANNE HOLDER

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't ...
GEOFFREY HOLDER

His importance really can't be overemphasized.
GRANT HOLDER

All I want is some man to take delight in me. 5:30? 6:30 A.M. as usual, no cigs. Better a maudlin dr...
MARYSE HOLDER

We won't replace mobile phones with this product. But we are looking to replace some of the minutes ...
LOUIS HOLDER

Their goal is to win the outdoor County Championship as well, but right now we re just trying to im...
NIGEL HOLDER

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to...
GEOFFREY HOLDER

We won't see many cattle turned out to the pastures before the end of April this year. The grass jus...
MIKE HOLDER

We are asking the court to interpret the rules as they relate to the playing conditions for the host...
ARTHUR HOLDER

It was extraordinary what they did. A person could do it because they loved it, not just because the...
GRANT HOLDER

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you do...
GEOFFREY HOLDER

It will be here on our home turf, no pressure. We'll all be fired up.
IAN HOLDER

If we commented on every single one of them, you'd think we were building everywhere. That (Green Ac...
JENNIFER HOLDER

We've worked with many other states and we've said, 'Let us come in and help. We want to be a partne...
JENNIFER HOLDER

I think it was encouraging that the application met the majority of the criteria for project approva...
JENNIFER HOLDER

When it comes to people hacking in and eavesdropping . . . it's very hard to do.
LOUIS HOLDER

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can...
ERIC HOFFER

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find them...
ERIC HOFFER

It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
ERIC HOFFER

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and presen...
ERIC HOFFER

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH

Man was nature's mistake --she neglected to finish him -- and she has never ceased paying for her mi...
ERIC HOFFER

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH

To the old, the new is usually bad news.
ERIC HOFFER

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER

We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we hav...
ERIC HOFFER

To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.
ERIC HOFFER

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
GOLNIK ERIC

If you think you can do it, you can.
ERIC LINDROS

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about o...
ERIC HOFFER

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.
ERIC HOFFER

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans:...
ERIC BENTLY

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
ERIC HOFFER

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominate...
ERIC HOFFER

In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
ERIC HOFFER

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
ERIC HOFFER

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not or...
ERIC HOFFER

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and go...
ERIC BENTLY

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.
ERIC HOFFER

At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, ...
ERIC IDLE

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and powe...
ERIC BERNE

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he...
ERIC GILL

Thus we find that people who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossibl...
ERIC HOFFER

The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wis...
ERIC HOFFER

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
ERIC HOFFER

It is easier to love humanity than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.
ERIC SEVAREID

It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
ERIC HOFFER

There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a...
ERIC HOFFER

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if i...
ERIC SCHMIDT

I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, lite...
ERIC HOFFER

The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Alta...
ERIC HOFFER

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
ERIC HOFFER

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian ...
ERIC HOFFER

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for ho...
ERIC IDLE

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has ha...
ERIC HOFFER

The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by d...
ERIC HOFFER

The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of thr majority in th...
ERIC HOFFER

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opi...
ERIC HOFFER

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that ...
ERIC HOFFER

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has hap...
ERIC HOFFER

It is easier to love humanity as a whole that to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ...
ERIC HOFFER

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandis...
ERIC HOFFER

I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think...
ERIC STOLTZ

Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.
ERIC HOFFER

For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation an...
ERIC TOPOL

Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So...
ERIC RIES

Like Hollywood movies, MTV and blue jeans, fast food has become one of America's major cultural ...
ERIC SCHLOSSER

We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.
ERIC CANTONA

The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - c...
ERIC KANDEL

The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.
ERIC BURDON

I look upon The Animals, they were a great band initially, we left our mark, but thing was it was a ...
ERIC BURDON

I'm really still a child of the Forties. I still think about it a lot, about the repercussions o...
ERIC BURDON

I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful an...
ERIC IDLE

Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug...
ERIC SCHMIDT

My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a pow...
ERIC KANDEL

To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, a...
ERIC IDLE

I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.
ERIC IDLE

A website can be very time-intensive, but I'd love to have one where people can contribute to it...
ERIC IDLE

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed ...
ERIC SEVAREID

Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.
ERIC HOFFER

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
ERIC HOFFER

It may act as an ancillary factor, but by itself, the mutation in tau doesn't give you Alzheimer...
ERIC KANDEL

The workers who harvest our food have been systematically denied the basic rights that are granted t...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength
ERIC HOFFER

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal hon...
ERIC ZORN

Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through ...
ERIC KANDEL

I usually take the first batch of some ice cream, eat it, and then about an hour later, at halftime ...
ERIC WEDDLE

Frankly, I guess, I don't really understand why people, why so many people, are so risk averse. ...
ERIC BETZIG

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.
ERIC SCHMIDT

There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile...
ERIC RIES

As Attorney General, my most important responsibility is keeping New Yorkers safe by enforcing the l...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN

I don't even take aspirin.
ERIC DAVIS

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times ...
ERIC SCHMIDT

My favorite thing is to go out in the arenas, like, an hour before doors, and run the concourse. And...
ERIC CHURCH

I went to Appalachian State University, which was very bluegrass- and folk-oriented.
ERIC CHURCH

We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whate...
ERIC CARLE

Fast food is popular because it's convenient, it's cheap, and it tastes good. But the real c...
ERIC SCHLOSSER

The wish fulfillment of growing younger is not necessarily all it's cracked up to be. You have n...
ERIC ROTH

I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to m...
ERIC CLAPTON

One of the many, many salutary aspects of Barack Obama's impending presidential nomination is th...
ERIC ALTERMAN

Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invente...
ERIC SCHMIDT

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH

I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the ...
ERIC DAVIS

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us...
ERIC HOFFER

The fact is that up to now a free society has not been good for the intellectual. It has neither ac...
ERIC HOFFER

As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy u...
ERIC WEINER

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness.
ERIC SEVAREID

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
ERIC HOFFER

Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in ...
ERIC HOFFER

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a sym...
ERIC HOFFER

Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
ERIC HOFFER

There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who ...
ERIC CHURCH

It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer f...
ERIC HOFFER

When I went to college at the University of Nevada back in Las Vegas, I got tricked into singing in ...
ERIC WHITACRE

People in chorus tends to be much more emotional or at least wear their hearts on their sleeve. They...
ERIC WHITACRE

The Cheesecake Factory's not that bad.
ERIC RIPERT

I take pride in a lot of things people take for granted, so when opportunities come my way, I just c...
ERIC BERRY

I want to see how far I can go and how good I can be, whether it's in the classroom or on the fo...
ERIC BERRY

Every New Yorker has the right to clean air, safe drinking water, and healthy communities to raise t...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN

I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.
ERIC CLAPTON

I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happene...
ERIC MCCORMACK

California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from ...
ERIC RIPERT

Emergency preparedness is a team sport,
ERIC WHITAKER

I guess we're putting Plano on the map. We are one win away.
ERIC ZASTOUPIL

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. T...
ERIC IDLE

It became the Clearwater Lutheran.
ERIC NEWMAN

It's more likely to be just a prolonged period where trading in other species is difficult and maybe...
ERIC BARRATT

We don't recommend that a parent use a restraint system for a child that has outgrown that system.
ERIC BOLTON

Suing a client can take years. Instead, for about $2,000, you may be able to get a writ of attachmen...
ERIC SHAW

First of all, the chances that both guys are there (at the 13th pick) is virtually nonexistent. The ...
ERIC DECOSTA

I have always had the highest regard for him both as an individual and as one of the fiercest and mo...
ERIC MANGINI

He had some swelling in the knee and when you combine that with the fact he hasn't pitched for a whi...
ERIC WEDGE

I've never seen anybody handle adversity as well. It was incredible.
ERIC WEDGE

I thought that was pretty special -- [Thursday], and what we saw. I don't mind talking about it, bec...
ERIC WEDGE

Yeah hippie, go back to Woodstock if you don't want to shoot anything.
ERIC CARTMAN

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby t...
ERIC HOFFER

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
ERIC HOFFER

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

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Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

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