"Long before many of us were even conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and racial equality."

-- Kwame Nkrumah

#Long Quotes #Degradation Quotes #Conscious Quotes

“Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.”
“But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of the public, and that the common law rules that subject the libeler to responsibility for the public offense, as well as for the private injury, are not abolished by the protection extended in our constitutions. The law of criminal libel rests upon that secure foundation. There is also the conceded authority of courts to punish for contempt when publications directly tend to prevent the proper discharge of judicial functions.”
“Let me assure you that all of our pets, and animals of every kind will be with us for eternity on the Other Side.”
“In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.”
“I feel thereâ€™s an existential angst among young people. I didnâ€™t have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.”
“Man, that's the only kind of book I like Â– one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know about the person who wrote it, like how tall he is and what kind of music he likes and whether or not he really went through all the stuff he was writing about.”

Source : Adam Rapp (2011). “Under the Wolf, Under the Dog”, p.117, Candlewick Press
“We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.”

Source : Lewis Madison Terman (1947). “Genetic Studies of Genius ...: The gifted child grows up; twenty-five years' follow-up of a superior group, by L. M. Terman and M. H. Oden”
“We've been pretty lucky we've played with Feeder, Hundred Reasons and Puddle of Mud, but I think the one we're most proud of is playing with The Deftones because when we were kids they were everyone's favourite band. I think all our mates were pretty envious.”

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