"I think many Dutch just don't know the history of Black Pete, that he is rooted in slavery, and how he was used to dehumanize a race of people. Once they realize this, many stop using this character, but those who continue are either in denial, insensitive or actually racists."

-- Roger Ross Williams

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Race Quotes

“No rising hope on the political scene who offered his services to Labour when I happened to be its leader can be dismissed as an opportunist.”

Source : Michael Foot's remarks on Tony Blair, 1995.
“Whatever the deal is with other countries, we want a better deal for America's workers.”
“The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard them immediately on this account. For every hypothesis which once was sound was useful for thinking of previous phenomena in the proper interrelations and for keeping them in context. We ought to set down contradictory experiences separately, until enough have accumulated to make building a new structure worthwhile.”
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
“Following the attacks in Paris, French President FranÃ§ois Hollande has a completely different set of concerns. France needs more police, more security personnel and a greater emphasis on integration. He says that security is more important than the Stability Pact.”
“Truth is more in the process than in the result.”
“It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of man himself and animals, trees, rocks and streams. Every attempt at a formula, a short-cut, a panacea, always ends in negation and destruction.”
“Negative feelings choke the Lordâ€™s word in us.”

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