No Compromise Quotes - Page 3

• I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Slavery, Soil, Compromise

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.197, Library of America

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• On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this Supreme Being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly.

  Barry Goldwater

  Religious, Jesus, Powerful

  "Excerpts From Goldwater Remarks". Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.

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• You have to be uncompromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared...  Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal.  It's a constant. There will be days when you don't feel on top of your game, or meetings in which you aren't at your best, but your commitment remains constant. No compromises.

  Michael Jordan

  Commitment, Years, Games

  Michael Jordan, Mark Vancil (2006). “Driven from Within”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Religious, Effort, Political

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• My judgment is that neither House of Congress, nor both combined, have any right to interfere in the count. It is for the Vice-President to do it all.... There should be no compromise of our Constitutional rights.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Rights, House, President

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• Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

  Phyllis McGinley

  Life, Spices, Compromise

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics and that there are no easy shortcuts to success. Their companies need ethics carefully sewn into their fabric.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Needs, Fabric, Shortcuts

  "Corruption in Business, and the Importance of Ethics" by Vivek Wadhwa, www.linkedin.com. July 13, 2013.

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• This the American black man knows: his fight here is a fight to the finish. Either he dies or wins. If he wins it will be by no subterfuge or evasion of amalgamation . He will enter modern civilization here in America as a black man on terms of perfect and unlimited equality with any white man, or he will enter not at all. Either extermination root and branch, or absolute equality. There can be no compromise. This is the last great battle of the west.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Fighting, Men, Winning

  "Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880".

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• There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Rights, Compromise, Humans

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• You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything.

  Ayrton Senna

  Giving, Levels, Compromise

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• And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and decolonization a simply a question of relative strength.

  Frantz Fanon

  Country, Class, Pay

  Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr

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• There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

  A. K. Antony

  Fighting, Compromise, Corruption

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• Once you are in it you are in it, you have to go all the way to the end because you commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have absolutely everything. Sometimes you find even more because you require more if you want to stay ahead and you want to win.

  Ayrton Senna

  Winning, Giving, Levels

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• The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Confused, Childhood

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