"If you ask for good schools, you aren't likely to get them. If you ask for jobs or economic investment, you won't get that either. But what we have learned, is that the one thing that poor folks of color can ask for and get are Police & Prisons."

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Michelle Alexander

#Jobs Quotes #School Quotes #Color Quotes

“The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”
“Davy lets fly an oath and storms out of the hold. We hear his fist hit the wall as he leaves. you really are an evil girl, says Jaimy. I know, I murmur. I shall have to pay.”

Source : L. A. Meyer (2004). “Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy”, p.220, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“The story of the Republican Party is of a far-right that has moved from the fringes of the party to a complete domination of the party. The moderate, mainstream and pragmatic leaders of the party have been pushed out or died off.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Above all, I shall see to it that the enemy will not be able to drop any bombs.”
“The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of their own times, by spreading the light of freedom and of truth still wider. The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future.”

Source : "Westward the Women". Book by Nancy Wilson Ross, Mar 15, 2016.
“I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.”
“If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist. Si, comme le croient plusieurs Canadiens, le Canada ne peut exister sans le QuÃ©bec, alors il ne mÃ©rite tout simplement pas d'exister.”

Source : "La Colère . Écrits Polémiques". Book by Pierre Bourgault, Volume 3, p. 257, 1996.
“This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.”

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