"The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival."

-- Bernice Johnson Reagon

#Jobs Quotes #Community Quotes #African American Quotes

“I AM happyâ€. They understood what we english people have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our language hypnotizes us and traps us in little labelled boxes ()”
“Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is it not then strange and unreasonable that it accepts them in the security industry?”

Source : Gustave Molinari (1977). “Production of Security, The”, p.28, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.”
“Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.”
“When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.”
“I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor.”
“Convicts are the best audience I ever played for.”
“Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.”

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