"When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me."

-- Lawrence Wright

#Rights Quotes #Race Quotes #Nashville Quotes

“And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things.”
“My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.”
“When I was younger I loved Betty Blue, and at the moment I'm completely besotted with Angelina Jolie. But sometimes I'm unnerved by the idea of men liking her. Because I think that there is a side to every man that really wants to watch a woman fall apart.”
“To be efficient means getting the job done in a smart, resourceful and timely way. To be effective means getting the right job done well, efficiently or not.”
“Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.”

Source : Henry Latham Doherty (1923). “Principles and ideas for Doherty men: papers, addresses and letters”
“This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.”
“I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.”

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