Bernice Weissbourd quote: "Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come."

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a ...
BERNICE WEISSBOURD

But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family ha...
BERNICE WEISSBOURD

Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the li...
BERNICE WEISSBOURD

Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that chi...
BERNICE WEISSBOURD

Sex prejudice is so ingrained in our society that many who practice it are simply unaware that they ...
BERNICE SANDLER

She knocked on doors, helped raise funds and did whatever needed to be done to make sure the center ...
BERNICE KING

She's doing pretty good. She's making one step at a time in this process.
BERNICE KING

[A week ago, King was taken to Piedmont when her daughter Yolanda King noticed she had stopped speak...
BERNICE KING

The old has passed away. There is a new order that is emerging.
BERNICE KING

She was basically resting. She would come in and out of her rest, open her eyes, look around and go ...
BERNICE KING

Prior to my mother's stroke, Martin and I had a conversation with her. She felt at some point, [the ...
BERNICE KING

There have been conversations with Dexter. We've had a lot of meetings. But it is difficult to work ...
BERNICE KING

She's not paralyzed. The right side is just weak.
BERNICE KING

As we move into the 21st century, it's going to be incumbent upon all of us to realize that while Ma...
BERNICE KING

There were a lot of home runs.
BERNICE KANNER

The ads aren't dull. But they're much less in-your-face.
BERNICE KANNER

I think the wardrobe malfunction will have changed this year's ads significantly. The pendulum has s...
BERNICE KANNER

I think about that a lot. How sweet she was -- she was very dear.
BERNICE JOHNSON

The awful part of how they died is always a part of our thinking. We have a lot of good memories of ...
BERNICE JOHNSON

Ann was killed in 1985 -- it was 1987 before we could do anything other than just existing.
BERNICE JOHNSON

The answer I've never had is why they were killed. There was no reason for them to be killed.
BERNICE JOHNSON

They named her Erika. That was hard, to say Erika.
BERNICE JOHNSON

At first we thought we were doing it to help others. But we found out we were doing it for ourselves...
BERNICE JOHNSON

It was very expensive to go there.
BERNICE JAMISON

She said her heart had been broken into 10,000 little pieces. She said she loved me like a mother. W...
BERNICE JAMISON

She found out he was two-timing on her. She told me some time ago she was going to kill him. I wasn'...
BERNICE JAMISON

We get maybe 400-500 letters and e-mails a year from young people who tell us how going to their sch...
BERNICE CARNEGIE

He also wanted to teach those kids good sportsmanship and good citizenship. And it's something he's ...
BERNICE CARNEGIE

He wanted those kids to play together and work hard together.
BERNICE CARNEGIE

My father would leave home for seven or eight months of the year trying to pursue his hockey career....
BERNICE CARNEGIE

It is all political and high political involvement is in this. This was all well planned out and the...
BERNICE SMITH

He told me that they sent threatening messages to him, but he continued to tell me that he was born ...
BERNICE SMITH

I used to tell he be careful, come off of politics, but he used to tell me he was born to fight for ...
BERNICE SMITH

He was a very nice child, family-oriented but he got into this politics and this turned his life aro...
BERNICE SMITH

My son was preparing for this, he told us that people were after his life, but yet he was not prepar...
BERNICE SMITH

The marchers were trying to make a statement, but some people wouldn't let their minds get bogged do...
BERNICE SIMS

Many people couldn't read and write. That was the catch.
BERNICE SIMS

The world is watching and will not tolerate backsliding and bickering that costs lives.
BERNICE ROMERO

Again and again the rich countries procrastinate and delay. They must do the debt deal this weekend.
BERNICE ROMERO

That is the first big building on that block of Pine Street that has a potential of being renovated....
BERNICE LINTON

That is truly a bed-and-breakfast. People who are looking for a b-and-b are looking for a historic h...
BERNICE LINTON

After the holidays, I am going to try to get a status of everything and what the plans are. I know a...
BERNICE LINTON

My mother has a very strong determination to succeed. She looked forward to therapy and was full of ...
BERNICE KING

My mother has a very strong determination to succeed, ... She looked forward to therapy and was full...
BERNICE KING

They're buying the booze. They're buying the condoms. They're even buying the guns.
BERNICE KANNER

It's not in the soprano voice that she has. But it's in a voice that's good to hear.
BERNICE KING

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we jus...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being t...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned ...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minori...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the ...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than ...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you ar...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict...
BERNICE FITZ-GIBBON

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself ...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female ...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, a...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave sc...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I w...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who ha...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing researc...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the comm...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

As the years of work passed at the Smithsonian as a scholar, I realized that Howard had trained me w...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you a...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences,...
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritu...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth.
BERNICE FITZ-GIBBON

Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved in the broth
BERNICE FITZ-GIBBON

Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook,...
BERNICE FITZ-GIBBON

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and le...
BERNICE FITZ-GIBBON

Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. An...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day,...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail . ....
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And ...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

If you're in a coalition and you're comfortable, you know it's not a broad enough coalition
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

There is nowhere you can go and only be with people who are like you. Give it up.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these ...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

'Sugar, aint you ever had no good time?' she said with a bit of sadness in her voice.
'What y...
BERNICE L. MCFADDEN

The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communitie...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience ...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, tryi...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had ...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almo...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall ...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... ...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teache...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know,...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day,...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover wh...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON

Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.

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