"In order to better charge Moscow with human rights violations, the United States had to bend with regard to the more excessive aspects of Jim Crow. It had to yield to the insistent cries on the ground here in this country."

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Source : Source: politicalaffairs.net

Gerald Horne

#Country Quotes #Yield Quotes #Rights Quotes

“You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.”
“You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.”
“Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.”
“Thou art merciful; when all my endeavour is turned toward Thee because all Thy endeavour is turned toward me; when I look unto Thee alone with all my attention, nor ever turn aside the eyes of my mind, because Thou dost enfold me with Thy constant regard; when I direct my love toward Thee alone because Thou, who art Love's self, hast turned Thee toward me alone. And what, Lord, is my life, save that embrace wherein Thy delightsome sweetness doth so lovingly enfold me?”

Source : "The Vision of God".
“Whatever you are doing, take the attitude of wanting it directly or indirectly to benefit others. Take the attitude of wanting it to increase your experience of kinship with your fellow beings.”
“You aren't angry " "You must be joking " she said dryly. "I'm alive Nicholas. And I'm immortal like you. This rocks”
“A man is only as strong as the woman who holds him.”
“It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.”

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