"They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

-- Roger Brooke Taney

#Respect Quotes #Men Quotes #Rights Quotes

“You put a tuxedo on me, it's like putting a saddle on a hog.”
“Before it incarnates, each soul enters into a sacred contract with the Universe to accomplish certain things. It enters into this commitment in the fullness of its being. Whatever the task that your soul has agreed to, all of the experiences of your life serve to awaken within you the memory of that contract, and to prepare you to fulfill it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Dec 31, 2014
“I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.”
“A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.”
“Just because there's a trillion places to put an idea doesn't mean you don't need an idea in the first place”
“And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is madeâ€”that you madeâ€”and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.”

Source : William H. McRaven (2017). “Make Your Bed: Small things that can change your life... and maybe the world”, p.74, Penguin UK
“We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.”
“My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . .with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.”

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