"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."

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Constance Baker Motley

#Ymca Quotes #Views Quotes #World Quotes

“Creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.”

Source : Anni Albers (1962). “On designing”
“Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science,”
“For an individual we distinguish integrity as a matter of that person's word being whole and complete, and for a group or organizational entity as what is said by or on behalf of the group or organization being whole and complete. In that context, we define integrity for an individual, group, or organization as: Honoring one's word.”
“From the standpoint of modern political science the slave holders were right in declaring that liberty can be given only to those who have political capacity enough to use it, and they were also right in maintaining that two greatly unequal races cannot exist side by side on terms of perfect equality.”
“In the Middle East, Iraq , Sudan , the former Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and many other places in the world , religion has been so divisive that people have killed one another, believing they were doing the work of God .”
“I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the world that I don't even want to try to think about how to infiltrate that.”
“There's something in the very small minutia of life that tells us something about the big, big picture that we see every day all over the place, and so I think the more specific and creative and revelatory you are in the micro, the more powerful the macro will be.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.”

Source : "Profile: Mohamed ElBaradei". www.aljazeera.com. August 20, 2013.

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