"As a matter of fact, I constantly tell audiences all over the world that the single greatest icon of American culture from the publication of "To Kill A Mockingbird" was that novel so that if we say, what conversation can we have that would lead us on a road of tolerance, and teachers have decided that if you're going to teach values in a school in America, the answer that American teachers at all kinds of schools have come up with, just let Harper Lee teach "To Kill A Mockingbird." And then all the teacher has to do is stand back and guide the discussion."

-- Wayne Flynt

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“A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.”
“Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.”

Source : "Ain't I A Woman?". Sojourner Truth's speech at the Women's Rights Convention at Old Stone Church in Akron, Ohio, www.nps.gov. May 29, 1851.
“My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.”
“Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.”
“I can't even put gas in my plane!”
“The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.”

Source : FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Apr 21, 2015
“No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.”
“I never knew what I was doing until I was done.”

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