"I don't think my grandmother would ever be convinced, but my family was convinced that I was convinced, and actually, they came around. My mother ended up going to fundraisers in Chicago that were raising money to send to the students in the South and actually, over years, she went to an elevated train bus station one day at 6:00 a.m. to hand out leaflets protesting the war."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Diane Nash

#Mother Quotes #War Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Here's who it's okay to share a bed with: . . . A heating pad. An empty bag of pita chips. The love of your life.”
“I just feel like I haven't grown up yet. I live on my own and I do grown-up things, but there is something about me that is very youthful.”

Source : "Kay Panabaker Talks LITTLE BIRDS, Auditioning, Playing a Teenager, and Shooting at the Salton Sea". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 6, 2012.
“A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.”
“Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.”
“So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.”
“Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.”
“A lot of people don't understand the building phase. They don't have the blueprint, but we do. With us having the blueprint and knowing what we want to build, it's not how it's supposed to be built, but what we want to build. I think it makes everything easy for us to stay focus and have that tunnel vision.”
“As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.”

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