"Based on my experience, I've seen where unity amongst the races has yielded positive results. I don't see any other way for people to gain freedom, justice, and equality here except by being internationalist."

-- Richard Aoki

#Race Quotes #Justice Quotes #People Quotes

“... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.”
“Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.”
“We have hardly an adequate idea how all-powerful law is in forming public opinion, in giving tone and character to the mass of society.”
“This country belongs to all of us. We made this country from nothing, from mud-flats... Over 100 years ago, this was a mud-flat, swamp. Today, this is a modern city. Ten years from now, this will be a metropolis. Never fear!”
“Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make noneâ€¦so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,”
“If you create Youtility, your customers will keep you close.”
“I like girls who really don't care what other people are thinking - girls who are a little goofy. I think that's sexy.”
“They rise in the morning, and they sleep in the dark. And even though nobody's looking, she's falling apart.”

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