"African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss."

-- Alveda King

#Opportunity Quotes #Missing Quotes #African American Quotes

“When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.”
“You don't have to think exactly like me. When people go, "I don't agree with everything you say," you know what, if you agree with everything anyone says, you're an idiot.”
“No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity â€“ that is, unity or wholeness â€“ in balanced relation to its environment.”
“Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who . . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot.”

Source : Susan Jacoby (2005). “Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism”, p.70, Macmillan
“We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.”
“My secret for staying young is good food, plenty of rest, and a makeup man with a spray gun.”
“Fear is a survival tool not a handicap.”

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