The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves. John L. Lewis
Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens. Herbert Marcuse
Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others. Reinhold Niebuhr
You could not claim for yourself that which you were not prepared to grant others. Pieter Willem Botha
No brother should preach contrary to the form and regulation of the holy Church nor unless he has been permitted by his minister. The minister should take care not to grant this permission to anyone indiscriminately. All the Friars, however, should preach by their deeds. Francis of Assisi
One finds little ingratitude so long as one is in a position to grant favors. French Proverb