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observers

«Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.»
«One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.»
«We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is a participatory universe.»
«To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.»
«Creditors have better memories than debtors; creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times»
«Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill'.»
«Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.»
«A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that the white American is even more unprepared.»
«If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.»