"Some day I'm going to have to stand before God, and if He asks me why I didn't let that [Jackie] Robinson fellow play ball, I don't think saying 'because of the color of his skin' would be a good enough answer."

-- Branch Rickey

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“Mmmm! Lunch and no clean up!! Can life get better? I submit that it CANNOT!!”
“It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet's life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive smaller cars, for instance) that it's very hard to understand why we haven't taken them. But I know that this is the issue our generation will be judged by.”

Source : "'Survivor' Aras: I'd Be 'Stoked' if Vytas Won". ETonline Interview, www.etonline.com. November 21, 2013.
“In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.”

Source : Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.193, Simon and Schuster
“I think everybody handles things very differently and you can conjecture, but until you're put in that situation, you really don't know.”
“Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.”
“A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question.”

Source : Nalini Singh (2011). “Kiss of Snow”, p.84, Penguin
“I've been on some fairways that are as good as the greens we putted on back then. We had crab grass. I remember one green where I putted through ants.”
“It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.”

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