"I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S. Springfield and some wild lands in Iowa. Notwithstanding my great and good husband's life was sacrificed for his country, we are left to struggle in a manner...of life undeserved. Roving Generals have elegant mansions showered upon them, and the American people leave the family of the Martyred President to struggle as best they may! Strange justice this."

-- Mary Todd Lincoln

#Country Quotes #Husband Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze of Benin.”

Source : Dudley Randall (2009). “Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall”, p.185, Wayne State University Press
“Daggers ever at the ready, I went about the day: children fed, linens mended, bedclothes aired. In little ways one conquers fear.”

Source : Sandra Gulland (2002). “The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B: A Novel”, p.218, Simon and Schuster
“I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.”
“I keep my feet on the ground, keep dedicated, keep focused, underestimate nobody and obviously you need the ability, talent and everything else that goes with it.”
“I just want to say that the multiculturalism - and especially the cultural relativism which is even worse than multiculturalism, the concept that all cultures are equal - is the worst recipe for any society.”

Source : Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl
“This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.”
“I would like to believe in an afterlife; it makes things more palatable. But I'm not banking on it.”
“I've become a captive of my own ambitions.”

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