David Mura famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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In the realm of culture in America, white European culture has held the floor for centuries; just as with any one-sided conversation, a balance can only be achieved if the speaker who has dominated speaks less and listens more.
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Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.
-- David Mura
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.
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White in the moon the long road lies.
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Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.
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I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people.
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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
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All that harms labor is treason to America.
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Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.
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There is no justice in following unjust laws.
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No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
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