"What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences."

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Source : Charles A. Murray (1984). “Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980”, p.188, Basic Books

Charles A. Murray

#Fighting Quotes #Differences Quotes #Parent Quotes

“The performing part of it, that's what I live for. I've always told people that's what I was born for. I believe, with the proper things around me, and everything I need as a performer; band, and all that kind of stuff, I still feel to this day there's no one that can touch me. Still.”

Source : Source: www.parlemag.com
“I think it's never too late to learn - or it's a lesson that's good to continue learning - that you need to treat everyone on a set with respect.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.”
“Catch someone doing something right.”
“We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity”

Source : Address by His Highness the Aga Khan to the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, May 15, 2006.
“You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I'm watching sports I can't be bothered.”

Source : Interview with Rick Chandler, deadspin.com. May 2, 2007.
“Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.”

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