"Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish."

-- Thurgood Marshall

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“We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.”
“Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.”
“The elevator to success is broken. Take the stairs.”

Source : "Her Source Exclusive: Lauren London & Jenifer Lewis Talk ‘Baggage Claim’". The Source Interview, thesource.com. September 19, 2013.
“The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.”
“Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now.”
“I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.”
“All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the eighth, a standard type of text was produced, which is found in the vast majority of the manuscripts that have come down to us. At least ninety-six per cent of the extant manuscripts of the Greek New Testament are later than the eighth century; and of those only a handful preserve traces of the other types of text which were in existence before the adoption of the standard text, and out of which it was created.”

Source : "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 39, 1949.
“His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours!”

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