Mamie Till famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to the Negroes in the South I said, `That's their business, not mine.' Now I know how wrong. I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all.
-- Mamie Till

#Jobs #Nice #Son
We cannot afford the luxury of self pity. Our top priority now is to get on with the building process. My personal peace has come through helping boys and girls reach beyond the ordinary and strive for the extraordinary. We must teach our children to weather the hurricanes of life, pick up the pieces, and rebuild. We must impress upon our children that even when troubles rise to seven-point- one on life's Richter scale, they must be anchored so deeply that, though they sway, they will not topple
-- Mamie Till

#Girl #Children #Boys
When people saw what had happened to my son, men stood up who had never stood up before.
-- Mamie Till

#Son #Men #Lynching
Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son, lynched?
-- Mamie Till

#Son #Vacation #Sight
If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly.
-- Mamie Till

#Past #White #Knees
I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I am against the death penalty. There is no purpose that it serves except to further the damage that death has already done.
-- Mamie Till

#Meaningful #Heart #Able
I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till,
-- Mamie Till

#Thinking #Emmett Till #Needed

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.
Rent' was my first professional job, ever.
The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
Think of negative speech as verbal pollution. And that's what I've been doing: visualizing insults and gossip as a dark cloud, maybe one with some sulfur dioxide. Once you've belched it out, you can't take it back. As grandma said, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. The interesting this is, the less often I vocalize my negative thoughts, the fewer negative thoughts I cook up in the first place.
I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus, ' and knocked it in.
It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.
Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isnt ruined if I lose. Im always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, thats something thats nice about maturing.
Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed

Mamie Till famous quotes

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