"On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else."

-- Gideon Welles

#Strong Quotes #Children Quotes #War Quotes

“Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where no one thought being gay was even something to ride someone about?”

Source : Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.104, Scholastic Inc.
“The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.”

Source : Elizabeth Robinson Montagu, Mrs. Montagu (Elizabeth) (1809). “The letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu: with some of the letters of her correspondents”, p.226
“Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.”
“Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“She should want to see me. If I had said how I feel about her, she would miss me even more. All this time, I've been breaking her heart by keeping her wait, yet I can't still appear before her eyes. I never want to see her cry anymore. Even if it means I no longer exist in her heart. How immature of me, right? -Kudou Shinichi”
“Death and adversity come to us all, but so does life everlasting!”
“Pity makes a thin drink, indeed.”

Source : Caroline Pafford Miller (1944). “Lebanon”
“Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.”

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