"I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961"

-- Bernice Johnson Reagon

#School Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Liberty is not enough.”
“I hated school . . . . One of the reasons was a learning disability, dyslexia, which no one understood at the time. I still can't spell . . .”
“When there's something or someone, when there's anything that makes you happy, you don't let a continent or an ocean or an empty pocket keep you apart”

Source : Dana Reinhardt (2011). “The Summer I Learned to Fly”, p.135, Wendy Lamb Books
“Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.”
“I don't know what's wrong with that girl.”
“Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.”
“Reporters are always supposed to be demanding more access and more transparency. So the day that there isn't some friction between the White House press corps and the White House is the day that somebody in the press corps is not doing their job.”

Source : Source: www.cbc.ca
“When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art form in itself, but... my portrait is a culmination of elements... a truer image of a person than just the 'click' of a snapshot.”

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