"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction."

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Rita Mae Brown

#Life Quotes #Motivational Quotes #Spiritual Quotes

“If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.”
“You're trying to get a comfort zone with the parents. You want the family to feel comfortable with me in charge of their son.”
“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”
“The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the studentâ€™s inward teacher is ignoredâ€¦ we can speak to the teacher within our students only when we are on speaking terms with the teacher within ourselves.”
“The secret of happiness is freedom.”

Source : "History of the Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides, book II, 2.43,
“It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter.”
“Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.”

Source : "The Case for Reparations". www.theatlantic.com.
“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

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