"With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens."

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Source : "This Little Light of Mine". Book by Hay Mills, ch. 8, 1993.

Fannie Lou Hamer

#People Quotes #Cracks Quotes #Causes Quotes

“I don't understand the word 'lose', I only understand the word 'learn'”
“There is no knowing what is in a man's heart.”

Source : Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.30, A&C Black
“If I could have any job I would be a cat... but that's not something I'm supposed to talk about in public.”
“The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the cold void between the stars speaks its language. To that savage self, evil can look lovely in too little light.”
“So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.”

Source : Erving Goffman (1981). “Forms of Talk”, p.1, University of Pennsylvania Press
“There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!”
“Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.”
“Much of our love is confined to mere lip service and dreams of good deeds accomplished, but true love must be expressed in unselfish acts of kindness that bring others closer to our Heavenly Father.”

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