Charlotte Forten Grimke famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.
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At times I feel it almost impossible not to despond entirely of there ever being a better, brighter day for us. None but those who experience it can know what it is - this constant, galling sense of cruel injustice and wrong. I cannot help feeling it very often, - it intrudes upon my happiest moments, and spreads a dark, deep gloom over everything.
-- Charlotte Forten Grimke -
hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no other injury could be so hard to bear, so very very hard to forgive, as that inflicted by cruel oppression and prejudice.
-- Charlotte Forten Grimke
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What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.
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Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and Âirritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.
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Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
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You don't need vision to be a visionary.
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The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.
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I'm a really good hacker, but I'm not a sensible person.
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Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.
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A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.
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Every sin provokes its punishment.
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