"I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination."

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Source : "Remembering Rosa Parks". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 24, 2005.

Joseph Lowery

#Determination Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it. Perhaps this is what Thoreau had in mind when he said, â€œthe more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.”

Source : "Fighting Climate Change Through ‘Nature Connectedness’" by Nancy Shulins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.
“You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.”

Source : FaceBook post by Les Paul from Jun 22, 2015
“Take Courage! Whatever you decide to do, it will probably be the wrong thing.”
“Fundamental [tax] reform almost always runs the risk of making things worse.”
“Happiness is an immunity.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner (1988). “Selected stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Vintage
“If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?”
“As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything.”
“What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.”

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