"We have to "walk the walk" not just "talk the talk"."

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Source : Paul Kivel (2013). “Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice Ð 3rd Edition”, p.4, New Society Publishers

Paul Kivel

#Civil Rights Quotes #Walks Quotes

“The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.”
“I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.”
“There's no comparison between Division I and Division II. The reason they have Division II is for the guys who can't make it at Division I. That's fine. They need to have something to feel good about themselves. Those guys have to have something to do with their lives.”
“One must not imitate what one wants to create.”
“I do not know what happened with your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished for no daughter but you.”

Source : John Stephens (2011). “The Emerald Atlas”, p.379, Knopf Books for Young Readers
“I lost the conviction that lights would always turn green for me, the pleasant certainty that those rather passive virtues which had won me approval as a child automatically guaranteed me not only Phi Beta Kappa keys but happiness, honor, and the love of a good man; lost a certain touching faith in the totem power of good manners, clean hair, and a proven competence on the Stanford-Binet scale. To such doubtful amulets had my self-respect been pinned, and I faced myself that day with the non-plused apprehension of someone who has come across a vampire and has no crucifix at hand.”
“Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil's overthrow of our first parents.”
“People who succeed speak well of themselves to themselves.”

Source : Laurie Beth Jones (1995). “Jesus, CEO: using ancient wisdom for visionary leadership”, Hyperion Books

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