"All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage through the wilderness was to Israel, "the right way to the city of habitation"."

-- John Flavel

#Dark Quotes #Cities Quotes #Israel Quotes

“To be cool is to believe. To stay cool is to have the sweet fragments of serenity rock your wig away.”
“Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.”
“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”
“The reports of racial episodes are disturbing. But the players' protest is exhilarating because it is the most high-profile example to date in a continuing revolution in which the athletes who drive the multibillion-dollar college sports machine have begun to use their visibility to demand change.”
“Never think of revising as fixing something that is wrong. That starts you off in a negative frame of mind. Rather think of it as an opportunity to improve something you already love.”

Source : Marion Dane Bauer (1996). “Our Stories: A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.”
“Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's my concern.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.”

Source : Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.19, Take Root Media

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