"I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all."

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Source : Sojourner Truth (1999). “Book of Life”, X-Pr

Sojourner Truth

#Rights Quotes #Years Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory.”
“Changing Myrtle Beach? It makes me feel very good ... If it's changing, it's changing for the positive.”
“All work flows from some underlying assumptions, and the content of that faith can dramatically change our expectations for our work.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com
“I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.”
“Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a competitive edge in the marketplace. But such programs make no difference unless management also learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and then finds ways of implementing them.”
“We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies.”
“Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results.”
“Failure is just part of life; it happens to everyone. Yet, it doesn't have to be crippling if you don't let it.”

Source : "Actor Ian Anthony Dale: On Being Stereotyped, His Deep-Fried Childhood, and Letting Failure Make You Stronger". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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