"By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the ugly legacy of slavery-teaching our children that some lives are inherently less precious than others."

-- Joseph Lowery

#Children Quotes #Teaching Quotes #White Quotes

“I don't enjoy being in Europe for weeks on end, so I just skip it.”
“Every word I write is like a drop of my blood. If it's flowed passionately and long, I need time to recover from the emotion spent before I began a new story. My characters are my life. I have to respectfully and carefully move between them.”
“Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.”
“Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.”
“I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.”

Source : " Patti Page, singer of Tennessee Waltz, dies at 85", www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2013.
“The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise.”
“Problems arenâ€™t out there, whatever is missing is what you are not giving, and whatever crisis you are hitting is a call for more of you to come out, for more of you to emerge.”
“You can't get rid of a part that makes you you and be happy.”

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