"I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man."

-- Bayard Rustin

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“Life continually teaches. We eventually catch on.”
“I have not been one of those champions that have been fed perfect guys to make me look great.”

Source : Source: www.boxinginsider.com
“If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.”

Source : "Speak French with Michel Thomas" by Michel Thomas, Disc 5, March 29, 2001.
“I didn't train to make the Olympic team until 1968. I simply trained for the moment. I never even imagined I would be an Olympic athlete. It always seemed to evolve.”
“It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny, all the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms to get on the battlefields - ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom.”
“But in a broader sense, when I have more control, I want to expose people to new ideas.”
“People are pretty simple: they do what they are rewarded for doing. If they get multimillion-dollar bonuses by taking huge risks with other people's money - as they still do - then they will continue to take those huge risks, and not give it another thought.”

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