"And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Taylor Branch

#Country Quotes #Patriotic Quotes #Past Quotes

“Our way is where God knows And Love knows where: We are in Love's hand to-day.”
“Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie.”
“As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.”
“Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.”
“It's the same challenge as with any other character, adults or not. You want to take time with the kids. You want to tell them in the audition that they have time to exchange ideas. I'm there. It's not someone else who does the audition, but I don't want to audition a thousand children.”
“As you become an adult, shame gets introduced and reintroduced constantly to you. So where something that, to a child, just is what it is - you know, your father's violent but he loves you and that's just the way it is - later on you realize that this is like different, shameful, blah blah blah.”

Source : "Justin Torres’ Hard-Knock Debut Novel". Interview with Tim Mcdonnell, www.motherjones.com. October 3, 2011.
“I am happy. I skated well. This is a competition and sometimes things don't go as you'd like them to.”
“Morality is the tendency to pour out the baby with the bathwater.”

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