"Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation."

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Source : Acceptance speech for the Charles S. Johnson Award at Fisk University, 1966.

Lillian Smith

#Men Quotes #Evil Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.”
“I think at one point, a whole new younger generation of critics come in and they're really aware of zeitgeist in their group, and the older artists tend to get forgotten as their critics retire and do other things or stop paying attention. So there's a factor of aging that I think is to be considered, too. As a middle-aged artist, you kind of get put on a shelf for the young ones.”
“No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.”
“Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught”

Source : Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.1
“Wherever you find real love, you will also find humility. Remember something: humility is not a weak and timid quality. Too often we feel that humility is a sign of weakness. This is not so. It is the sign of strength and security.”
“I didn't want to be different. I longed to be everything grownups wanted, so they would love me. I followed all their rules, tried my best to please. But there was something about me that made them knit their eyebrows and frown. No one ever offered a name for what was wrong with me. That's what made me afraid it was really bad. I only came to recognize its melody through this constant refrain: 'Is that a boy or a girl?'”

Source : Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com
“A lot of times, when doing the paranormal research and doing an investigation, you don't know what you're going to encounter. You don't know what you're going to come up against. People have to realize that we don't know them and they don't know us. I'm talking about the people that live in the homes. Sometimes you don't know what you're going to encounter, what type of situation you're going to walk into.”

Source : Source: dailydead.com
“Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.”

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