"That is part of why we must keep talking about Fannie Lou Hamer and about our history as a party and as a nation. We can't forget. If we forget, we can get self-righteous. We are great, but we had to grow into that greatness. Let's not forget that we shut people out."

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Source : Source: www.elle.com

Leah D. Daughtry

#Party Quotes #Greatness Quotes #Talking Quotes

“Gays should be fought against.”

Source : Newsweek Polska, July 14, 2003.
“When you're talking about Iraq and oil, you're talking about a mess, no matter who's in charge.”
“On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.”
“I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.”
“The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.”
“The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.”
“The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Families were living separately from the fathers. And so although, according to African culture, men were the head of the household, the truth is women were the ones who were raising everybody, including men. And growing up with my mother, that was something I really learned to appreciate.”

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