"When he [Franklin Roosevelt] ultimately does not get the Republican Party nomination and decides to start his new Bull Moose Party, he does, for the first time, let black delegates be part of the party from elsewhere in the country."

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Source : Source: www.npr.org

Geoffrey Cowan

#Country Quotes #Party Quotes #Black Quotes

“You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.”

Source : "John Leguizamo: 'Freak,' and proud of it". edition.cnn.com. November 2, 1998.
“There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.”
“the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it.”
“I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature,”

Source : John Berryman (2014). “77 Dream Songs: Poems”, p.16, Macmillan
“"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was."”
“President Obamaâ€™s approval ratings are so low now, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the United States.”
“If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.”
“If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.”

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