A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
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information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad. CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to th... ROBERT KENNEDY When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth SOTONYE ANGA Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The atheist might have
no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
against it. If we ... LEWIS N. ROE He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY After Rilke's Letters -- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II this is my letter to a young ... RAINER MARIA RILKE Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea... ALBERT CAMUS …A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed... ALBERT CAMUS Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke. ALBERT CAMUS No, no. Don't make that face. Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face. It we... TESSA DARE Atticus---" ...said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but the... HARPER LEE Learn to stand for something in life otherwise you will fall for anything that comes along which is ... EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference. LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO One day a small monkey was always getting ignored by the other monkeys ,so to get attention he said ... GARY F EVANS... In this life it is good to have the experience of raising a child from infant stage to adulthood,be ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER The question that remains unanswered and keeps coming to the fore is ‘Are the punishment schemes f... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON The standard of a true leader is that he sets also his own rules than merely and blindly obeys the s... ANUJ SOMANY I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud NEIL GAIMAN She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w... PIERCE BROWN During times of sour or bad relationship a good person will always exhibit a pleasant character. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL Sometimes trying to know someone so well is not always good. UZOMA NNADI It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English. The three men laughed ... ILONA ANDREWS As many of you are aware, I had been anxiously awaiting the addition of a new baby to my life. The b... CHRIS CAGLE I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That... MARK DAVIS
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JOHN MARSHALL The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal ... BURKE MARSHALL Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate i... MARSHALL MCLUHAN Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological ... MARSHALL MCLUHAN A typewriter is a means of transcribing thought, not expressing it. MARSHALL MCLUHAN It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame... MARSHALL MCLUHAN I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it. MARSHALL MCLUHAN Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by t... MARSHALL MCLUHAN Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the... MARSHALL MCLUHAN Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday'... MARSHALL MCLUHAN Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning. MARSHALL MCLUHAN The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order... MARSHALL MCLUHAN In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information,... MARSHALL MCLUHAN Art is anything you can get away with. MARSHALL MCLUHAN The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespear... MARSHALL MCLUHAN A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. MARSHALL MCLUHAN I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. MARSHALL MCLUHAN We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror. MARSHALL MCLUHAN The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist. MARSHALL MCLUHAN To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat. BARRY MARSHALL This is a day of little faith - of few convictions - a day when men seem to have no great causes and... PETER MARSHALL The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune... MARSHALL MCLUHAN To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well. JOHN MARSHALL