"I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step."

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Source : "The Pioneer". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. April 25, 2005.

Jerome Ringo

#Organization Quotes #African American Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Basically, this guy was a saint, so we drink.”
“New York seemed as young as I was and infinitely hospitable.”
“It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is the essence of market cooperation.”

Source : "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.
“If I ran a retail store, which I have done in my life, I would go into it from a place of "I am thrilled to be here, and I am honored to be able to serve other people."”
“What you focus on grows. What you concentrate on is what you see more of in your life.”
“This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.”
“I will set big goals for this country as president - some so large that the technology to reach them does not yet exist.""I will recruit new teachers and make new investments in rural schools, we'll connect all of America to 21st century technology and telecommunications.”

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