"I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours."

-- Angelina Grimke

#Rights Quotes #Want Quotes

“We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love.”
“I'm not prepared for a zombie apocalypse. I need more bottled water, a shotgun, and stronger abs. I have plenty of canner food.”
“I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not falter. I know how strongly American civilization now leans on the triumph of the government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and sufferings of the Revolution.”

Source : "'We Are All Exceptional.' Read Chuck Schumer's Inauguration Day Remarks" by Mahita Gajanan, time.com. January 20, 2017.
“There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.”

Source : Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.
“My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.”
“The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me.”
“We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.”
“imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.”

Source : Nancy Hale (1977). “The Realities of Fiction: A Book About Writing”, Greenwood Press

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