"You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too."

-- Paul Robeson

#Courage Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Rights Quotes

“My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.”
“Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future”
“Now is the chance for me to let go and release some new Nephilim tracks which have been constrained to the studio for some time. Trying to concentrate the work and thoughts down to a simple single objective is always a difficult practice but that's the nature of the beast... easy to find the beginning but always hard to reach the end”
“I was 52 years old. I had diabetes and incipient arthritis. I had lost my gall bladder and most of my thyroid gland in earlier campaigns, but I was convinced the best was ahead of me.”

Source : Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.15, St. Martin's Griffin
“My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.”
“I don't believe that I personally have been changed by the money. The bad thing is people assume you've changed because now you have money.”
“Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem”
“If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.”

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