"When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad."

-- Constance Baker Motley

#Race Quotes #Usa Quotes #United States Quotes

“Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got”

Source : Song: Tell Him, Album: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
“I don't know how anybody can work at home. I know I can't. It's just... there's too much to do at the house, and now, of course, I have a daughter that's at home, and she's always a draw. I can always drop what I'm doing and go play with her, and I do that all day.”
“Another victory like that and we are done for.”
“Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 52), 1937.
“When a consumer derives value - especially from something that was given to him for free - he becomes the best kind of evangelist.”
“Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.”
“I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer.”
“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”

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