"The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else."

-- Bernice Johnson Reagon

#Rights Quotes #Singing Quotes #Movement Quotes

“The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.”
“The thoughts you choose to think and believe right now are creating your future. These thoughts form your experiences, tomorrow, next week, and next year.”
“Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone.”
“You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.”
“I am proud to be an American Citizen.”
“The light is heart-breaking.”
“I have no secret. There are no rules to follow in business. I just work hard and, as I always have done, believe I can do it. Most of all, though, I try to have fun.”
“The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.”

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