"But he [Franklin Roosevelt] specifically prohibits any black participation from the Deep South, something which just infuriates people who'd been his supporters and who'd believed in him and resides that he is just shockingly abandoned the right of the people to rule. It's a pretty horrible story in that respect."

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Source : Source: www.npr.org

Geoffrey Cowan

#People Quotes #Black Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I felt that K wasn't getting a fair shake anyway.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Sleeping with your phone in your bedroom is never a good idea, but it's even worse when you're bullied online because it's too tempting to stay up all night trying to "fix" the situation - which isn't possible anyway.”

Source : "School Bullying: What You Haven’t Heard" by Rosalind Wiseman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.
“What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.”
“We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.”

Source : Ernest Shackleton (2015). “South”, p.191, Sheba Blake Publishing
“Real love doesn't seek to acquire. It gives itself away. Its very nature is that of surrender, service, and generosity.”

Source : Catherine Ingram (2004). “Passionate Presence”, p.37, Penguin
“No, I was not born with a monocle in my eye.”
“If you do have to look at polls, you should do it no more than once every few days, to get a general sense of the state of the race. I've seen the work on information overload, which makes people depressed, stressed and freezes their brains. I know that checking the polls constantly is a recipe for self-deception and anxiety.”
“Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.”

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