"A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills."

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W. E. B. Du Bois

#Work Quotes #Rights Quotes #Credit Quotes

“I have added some ploughmen to the landscape form the park pales which is a great help, but I must try and warm the picture a little more if I can... but I look to do a great deal better in future. I am determined to finish a small picture in the spot for every one I intend to make in future. But this I have always talked about but never yet done - I think however my mind is more settled and determined than ever on this point.”
“I always have someone to look up to, and I think it helps me with motivating myself.”
“I know what makes me happy. I know what makes me miserable. I'm trying to stay on the happy side.”
“Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.”
“Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.”
“I find it much easier to counsel than to be counseled, to reach out to a friend in my small group who is feeling insercure than to reveal my own inseurity. The truth is we don't much like being dependent. We don't enjoy admitting how depeately we long for someone's kindness and involvement. It's so humbling.”
“Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.”

Source : "Iggy's Trail of Destruction". Rolling Stone Interview, November 19, 2003.
“Wild Thing made their hearts sing. But he couldn't top everything.”

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