"There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs â€” partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs."

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Source : Booker T. Washington (1911). “My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience”

Booker T. Washington

#Jobs Quotes #Race Quotes #Class Quotes

“We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past history.”

Source : Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book II of III”, p.411, Lulu Press, Inc
“Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.”
“We do not find happiness by being assertive. We don't find happiness by running over people because we see what we want and they are in the way of that happiness so we either abandon them or we smash them. The Scriptures don't teach us to be assertive. The Scriptures teach usâ€”and this is remarkableâ€”the Scriptures teach us to be submissive. This is not a popular idea.”

Source : Seminar at LeSEA Broadcasting Studios in South Bend, Indiana, February 1993.
“I think that if you're creating an environment completely or...in my research, what I've learned is that if it's a CG world or a lot of visual effects, you're almost better doing that in post.”
“Between now and then, 'til I see you again, I'll be loving you.”

Source : Song: Love, Me
“As a reader I gravitate toward work that rests in the gray area, that doesn't come with easy answers.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.”
“Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.”

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