"It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home."

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Source : "Wellspring: 365 Meditations to Refresh Your Soul". Book by Karen Moore (p. 263), October 1, 2011.

Carl T. Rowan

#Freedom Quotes #Block Quotes #Home Quotes

“Official opposition to overall economic planning and planning controls has been characterized in a recent editorial as "Papa knows best". But it is precisely because Papa does not know best that I believe that Government should not presume to tell any businessman or industrialist what he should or should not do, far less what he may or not do; and no matter how it may be dressed up that is what planning is.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 133), March 30, 1962.
“May the Lord array thee in the garment of salvation and surround thee with the cloak of happiness.”

Source : Words inscribed upon the mantle of gonfalonier given to his son Cesare Borgia on March 29, 1499. "The Life of Cesare Borgia". Book by Rafael Sabatini, Chapter IV: "Gonfalonier of the Church", 1912.
“There are three processes every company has to have: Somehow you've got to set strategies; you've got to have a budget, so you need an annual operating plan; and somehow you've got to do succession and people planning.”

Source : Source: www.strategy-business.com
“The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.”

Source : Q&A with Sergio Aragonés, sergioaragones.com.
“So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.”
“The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should know where you stand. Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.”
“I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . .”

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