"You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all of the efforts that a very progressive police chief and mayor of that period had put into trying to restore race relations started to fall apart again, and you could see that unraveling for several years until the riots or rebellion of 1967."

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Source : "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

David Maraniss

#Summer Quotes #Fall Quotes #Race Quotes

“When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for your problems.”

Source : Thubten Yeshe, Lama Yeshe, Josh Bartok, Nicholas Ribush (2011). “When the Chocolate Runs Out”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
“Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.”
“I think the best all-round baseball player ever was Joe DiMaggio.”
“Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health”
“When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.”

Source : "The Charlie Hebdo Affair: Laughing at Blasphemy" by Emily Greenhouse, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2012.
“There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.”
“Go to nature with no parti pris. You should not know what your picture is to look like until it is done. Just see the picture that is coming.”
“I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.”

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