"The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist."

-- E. Franklin Frazier

#Boxes Quotes #Ballots Quotes

“So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth. Right, like the two are the same thing.”
“I do have more directorial control over animation, because it's like trial and error: If something doesn't work, you can always go back and change certain things. Whereas in live action, every day is a challenge, and you have to make decisions on an hourly basis. So in live action I have more freedom as a director, but in animation, I have more control over the final product.”

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“If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.”
“The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.”
“Men let women down. Over and over again. I'ts what they're programmed to do.”
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”

Source : Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984) See Modern Proverbs 41
“We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.”
“A totally honest organization would never hide or disguise actions or stonewall.”

Source : Brian Martin (2007). “Justice Ignited: The Dynamics of Backfire”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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