"If a white man wants to lynch me, thatâ€™s his problem. If heâ€™s got the power to lynch me, thatâ€™s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; itâ€™s a question of power."

-- Stokely Carmichael

#Attitude Quotes #Men Quotes #White Quotes

“The meek may inherit the earth, but they wont get the ball from me.”
“I realized [using my own voice] is what creates the performance in the performance art and that's what helps creates the distance for the viewers, like the distance that I get when I step back.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.”
“I hear voices. A shout. A laugh. Clay's laugh. I strained to see through the night. Fog had rolled in from Lake Ontario, but I could hear him laughing. The concrete turned to grass. The fog wasn't from the lake, but from a pond. Our pond. I was at Stonehaven, bounding through the back acres. Clay was running ahead of me.”
“Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.”

Source : John Bright (1865). “Speeches of John Bright, M.P., on the American Question”, p.257
“One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America -- and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try, they simply can't turn their heads away from an injustice when they see one taking place.”

Source : "Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life". Book by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2011.
“A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.”

Source : Charles Dudley Warner (2012). “Washington Irving”, p.90, tredition
“With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.”

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