"The American color bar unless speedily removed will be the rock on which our international Good Neighbor policy and our pious claims to moral leadership will founder."

-- Charles Hamilton Houston

#Color Quotes #Moral Leadership Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.”
“We're mortal, yet without a known expiration date. It's an inevitable fate worthy of acceptance, but not deserving of predictions.”
“For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.”
“Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant story, and it's up to us how it will turn out in the end.”

Source : Bo Lozoff (2015). “We're All Doing Time: A Guide for Getting Free”, p.34, Lulu Press, Inc
“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.”
“You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.”
“How am I supposed to let you go, that's all I'm asking. I want to hold you again, smell you, and, yes too, I just want you to fade. To please, please fade...”
“I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.”

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