The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, ‘This is the most loyal constituency we have. They’re not going anywhere.’ But the Republican Party has said, ‘That’s the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They’re not going anywhere. We’ve got to win without them.

You never know the value of what you have until you lose it.

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example, and France has followed it, of charters of power granted by liberty.

It wasn’t that you could take them for granted, as such – heaven knows, nothing can be taken for granted in this life – it was simply that you would know, almost unthinkingly, that they’d be there if you needed them, no matter how bad things got.

We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it’s really been there since early World War II.

Youth Is Something I Never Wanna Take For Granted. I Just Want To Smile And Live Life

My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it’s really amazing. I don’t take that for granted.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder

Wine is a grand thing,” I said. “It makes you forget all the bad.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass – which is better than trying to fill them.

You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.

I’ve been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

Of theeves and murderers: there I him espied, Who straight, Your suit is granted, said, and died.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like

Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.