"You probably know the name of Rosa Parks. You probably know that her refusal to move to the colored section in the back of a city bus sparked the Montgomery bus boycotts, one of the pivotal moments in the American civil rights movement."

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Source : Source: www.npr.org

Michel Martin

#Moving Quotes #Cities Quotes #Names Quotes

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public”
“My house had suddenly turned into a hospital ward.”
“Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.”
“If you have love in you, it's a strength. But if you are in love, it's a weakness.”

Source : Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax
“As a leader, it is vitally important that you keep in touch with your boss on a regular, sacrosanct basis. Chances are your boss can provide an aerial view that will make your path more clear.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Participating in the newest communications technologies becomes compulsory if you want to remain part of the culture.”
“I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.”

Source : "Jim Steranko talks comics, his new book and coming to Tampa". Interview with Brandon Jones, www.theglobaldispatch.com. February 29, 2012.
“The recent market run-up that appreciated run-of-the- mill shares also chanced to send up those token gold holdings. Pure luck, undeserved and unlikely to reoccur. Good questions outrank easy answers.”

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