"Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back"

-- Roy Wilkins

#Civil Rights Quotes #Steps Quotes #Way Quotes

“There is no glimpse of the light without walking the path. You can't get it from anyone else, nor can you give it to anyone. Just take whatever steps seem easiest for you, and as you take a few steps it will be easier for you to take a few more.”
“And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.”

Source : Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com.
“In Iraq, the U.S. military's whack-a-mole approach to killing Saddam Hussein may have finally paid off. The bombs destroyed the area and left behind a 60-foot crater, or as coalition forces prefer to call it: a freedom hole.”
“It is no longer enough to satisfy your customers. You must delight them.”
“Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.”
“I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.”
“...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.”
“Women of my age in America are at the mercy of two powerful and antagonistic traditions. The first is the ultradomestic fifties with its powerful cult of motherhood; the other is the strident feminism of the seventies with its attempt to clone the male competitive model.... Only in America are these ideologies pushed to extremes.”

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