"We are of the opinion that an important and irreversible process is taking place among the white population. Just as with the blacks, the whites, too, are currently overcoming a psychological barrier."

-- Joe Slovo

#White Quotes #Important Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life.”

Source : "Prophet of Software". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.
“More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power.”
“So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.”
“I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.”
“One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob ...”

Source : Mona Van Duyn (1990). “Near changes: poems”, Alfred a Knopf Inc
“Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by”
“It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.”
“One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.”

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