Leah Ward Sears famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.
-- Leah Ward Sears

#African American
A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.
-- Leah Ward Sears

#Marriage #Mother #Father
We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.
-- Leah Ward Sears

#Country #Mean #Guy
I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.
-- Leah Ward Sears

#Faith #Two #People
When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life.
-- Leah Ward Sears

#Growing Up #African American #Important

Mix a conviction with a man and...
we are the ones we have been waiting for
The Tea Party is protecting its millionaire and oil company friends while gutting critical services that they know protect the livelihood of African-Americans, as well as Latinos and other disadvantaged minorities,
It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
But at the same time you can't...
I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the expense of ourselves, and so we attempt to protect the African-American community.
The cause of freedom is not the...
I know Iâ€™m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but Iâ€™m not a jazz musician. Iâ€™m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: Itâ€™s in between these areas.
I am consumed with the fear of...
I am a regular young man surrounded...

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