"A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it."

-- Carl T. Rowan

#Political Quotes #Groups Quotes #Minorities Quotes

“There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.”

Source : Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.22, A&C Black
“Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.”

Source : Joseph J. Ellis (2003). “Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation”, p.16, Vintage
“You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.”

Source : Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.139, John Wiley & Sons
“When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.”
“A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.”
“We just want government to be a smart, supportive, reliable partner to the forces that are working for good in this country.”
“I want people to feel good about listening to this record, to get some kind of peace. It's just got something magical about it.”
“Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely, mathematics for land measurements and commerce and astronomy for time-keeping in agriculture and aspects of religious rituals.”

Source : Frederick Seitz (2012). “The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs”, p.8, Springer Science & Business Media

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