💬 Quotes

"No greater opportunity, responsibility, or obligation can fall to the lot of a human being than to become a physician. In the care of the sufferer, he needs technical skill, scientific knowledge, and understanding human nature."

"To know the patient is as important as to know the disease."

"Clinical diagnosis requires the careful gathering of historical data, a meticulous physical examination, and the judicious selection of diagnostic tests, synthesized through critical reasoning."

"Disease is very largely an alteration of normal physiological processes, and the manifestations of disease are simply the responses of the body to abnormal stimuli."

"The art of the practice of medicine is to care for the individual patient with compassion while applying the ever-expanding body of scientific knowledge."

"Prevention of disease remains the ultimate goal of medicine; failing that, early diagnosis and prompt, rational treatment offer the best means for alleviation of suffering."

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea."

"I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations on earth. I believe in the Negro Nation, whose anointing is the burden of its sorrow, and whose salvation is the grace of its redemption."

"Your country? How came it yours? Before the Pilgrims landed we were here. Here we have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours: a gift of story and song, a gift of sweat and brawn, and a gift of the spirit."

"Whiteness is the ownership of the earth, forever and ever, Amen!"

"Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interest is most vital,—the black workers themselves,—must be welcome, if white America is to make a real step toward democracy."

"We are not better than our fellows, but we are torn by the same passions, and we are led by the same providence."

"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye."

"He that can take up and poise all the reasons that come can weigh and discern, that is the true warfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat."

"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."

"Truth and falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?"

"Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors: a nation slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to."

"All opinions, yea errors, known, read, and collated, are of main service and assistance toward the speedy attainment of what is truest."

"Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent."

"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions."