"The blind spot for the in the Southern Progressive Movement - as for that matter in the national [progressive] movement - was the Negro, for the whole movement in the South coincided paradoxically with the crest of the wave of racism. Still more important to the association of the two movements was the fact that their leaders were often identical. In fact, the typical Progressive reformer rode to power in the South on a disenfranchising or white-supremacy movement."

-- C. Vann Woodward

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“Today is tomorrow, and present is past. Nothing exists and everything will last. There is no beginning, there was no end. No depth to fall, no height to ascend. There is only this moment, this flicker of light That illuminates nothing, but oh! So bright! For we are the spark that flutters in space, Consuming an eternity of a momentâ€™s grace. For today is tomorrow and present and past. Nothing exists and everything will last.”

Source : Jane Roberts (2012). “The “Unknown” Reality: Volume One: A Seth Book in Two Volumes”, p.571, Amber-Allen Publishing
“Respect is intended to operate on a two-way street.”
“Left to themselves, people will elaborate, not simplify solutions.”
“There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.”

Source : Keith J. Devlin (1988). “Mathematics: the new golden age”, Penguin Books
“They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.”

Source : Rosellen Brown (1998). “Civil Wars”, Delta
“Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.”
“Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.”
“Consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don't have to worry about what will happen. Instead, they know what will happen based on earlier experience.”

Source : "Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design". www.nngroup.com. January 1, 2011.

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