"I'm not against being proud of where you come from but I feel like sometimes the divisions are a little too bold and it hurts us more than it helps us."

“Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people.”

Source : Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.342, U of Nebraska Press

“To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.”

“Obama had a mandate for change and Trump clearly does not.”

Source : Source: m.motherjones.com

“There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.”

“Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.”

“If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.”

Source : "Q&A: The Rev Jesse Jackson". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

“I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Get in the habit of appreciating things.”