"It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a free country, when I am afraid to go to sleep in my own home in Mississippi?... I might not live two hours after I get back home, but I want to be a part of setting the Negro free in Mississippi."

-- Fannie Lou Hamer

#Country Quotes #Home Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.”
“What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?”
“Natural healing has the power to cure pancreatic cancer. But usually, before I see the patient, medical treatments - not the disease - have destroyed the patient's body.”
“I'm an actor. I'm just a creative person. I figure if I wasn't a good writer, I'd take to renovating homes... not renovating... decorating homes.”

Source : "Interview: Andrea Gabriel from ‘Lost’". Interview with Emma Loggins, www.fanbolt.com. March 2, 2010.
“What its children become, that will the community become.”

Source : ConcerningWomen "Woman and Marriage" (1926)
“Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.”
“Just like when there's a time that a smart person knows enough is enough, there's a time when you know you've got to fight.”

Source : Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words the human condition.”

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