"Politics are a part of athletics now. Politics is a part of everything. And athletics is no exception."

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Melissa Harris-Perry

#Athletics Quotes #Exception Quotes

“Don't let the clothes or anyone define you...just be yourself whether in a pair of jeans or a ball gown.”
“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.”
“Anybody that believes in separation of church and state needs to leave right now.”

Source : "Uneasy in Babylon: Southern Baptist Conservative and American Culture". Book by Barry Hankins, 2002.
“The Aldrich Plan is the Wall Street Plan. It means another panic, if necessary, to intimidate the people. Aldrich, paid by the government to represent the people, proposes a plan for the trusts instead.”
“The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense ...”

Source : Mary Ritter Beard (1920). “A Short History of the American Labor Movement”
“There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.”
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their work so important and urgent that they will allow nothing to disturb them. They think they are doing God a service in this but actually they are disdaining God's "crooked but straight path". It is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform service and that we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.”

Source : Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.76, SCM Press
“Most of my friends are skaters or were skaters at one time, so they obviously relate.”

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