"Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights."

-- James Hansen

#Kings Quotes #Rights Quotes #Jail Quotes

“Some of the memories were not clear---dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I'd seen his face... the way it felt when he'd held me in the meadow... the sound of his voice through the darkness of my faltering consciousness when he'd save me from James... his face as he waited under a canopy of flowers to marry me... every precious moment on the island... his cold hands touching our baby through my skin...”
“If you put your mind to something, if you give 100 percent, if you sacrifice, and if you dedicate yourself, anything is truly possible.”

Source : Apolo Ohno (2011). “Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday”, p.215, Simon and Schuster
“Those watercolourists who work from light to dark know that the darks do the damage.”
“It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.”
“Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.”
“I think after the 2008 Olympics I wasn't really satisfied with the outcome, so I knew I had to change some things.”
“When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.”
“The only reason they're out there is to see me fall into the damn orchestra pit.”

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