"Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson"

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Morris Dees

#Years Quotes #Rights Quotes #Rays Quotes

“I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest, the sense of duty rather than the desire for self-advancement, that must be appealed to. Envy is akin to admiration, and it is the admiration that the rich and powerful excite which secures the perpetuation of aristocracies.”
“The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.”
“All the uglinesses of the world can best be forgotten in the beauty of nature!”
“We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didnt know that we were any different from anybody else.”
“A lot of people my age think stand up sucks.”
“The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier.”

Source : "Berlin 2012: Javier Bardem Talks About Alvaro Longoria's 'Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony' (Q&A)". Interview with Pamela Rolfe, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2012.
“You and I are going to change the world.”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2012). “Shadow and Bone”, p.172, Macmillan
“I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.”

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