"History happens one person at a time."

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Source : Tananarive Due, Patricia Stephens Due (2003). “Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights”, One World/Ballantine

Patricia Stephens Due

#Persons Quotes

“You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.”
“I can see now how deeply God's absence affected my unconscious life, how under me always there was this long fall that pride and fear and self-love at once protected me from and subjected me to.... For if grace woke me to God's presence in the world and in my heart, it also woke me to his absence. I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe.”
“I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.”
“You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.”
“For someone to ask 'Who did you play for' and to be able to answer a single name 'Liverpool' that would be brilliant...I don't think I'd ever leave”
“If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.”
“But prices for the opening ceremony and some events' final competition should be a little bit higher.”
“While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.”

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