"This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen."

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Source : James Weldon Johnson (2004). “Writings”

James Weldon Johnson

#Country Quotes #Justice Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“I just love fashion. I think it just expresses who you are so much.”
“It is only the TRUTH that can make a man FREE, it is only the TRUTH that can make a man LIVE.”
“Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.”
“I love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun. I just take it as it comes.”
“Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.”
“Every time a colony wants independence, the questions on the agenda are: a) how do you get the imperialists out, and b) what kind of society do you build? There are usually the bourgeois nationalists who say, 'Let's just change the flag and keep everything as it was.' Then there are the revolutionaries who say, 'Let's change the property laws.' It's always a critical moment.”
“Yes you're getting your tattoo." I threw my arms around Dad's neck. "Thank you!" "Hey," Mom said. "I'm the one who had to persuade him it wasn't turning his little girl into a streetwalker." "I never said that," Dad said. "No?" I said. "Cool. Cause I've decided to skip the paw print. I'm thinking of a tramp stamp with flames that says 'Hot in Here.' No wait. Arrows. For directionally challenged guys”
“Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.”

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