"Question: Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo -- a black on the outside, a white on the inside -- that an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for?"

-- John McLaughlin

#Struggle Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Rights Quotes

“I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.”
“We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy.”

Source : "The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson". Interview with Sam Anderson, www.nytimes.com. March 14, 2013.
“The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.”

Source : Quoted in Louisville Courier-Journal, 4 July 1913.
“Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.”
“There is a constant need for new systems and new software.”
“There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.”
“All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.”
“If you insist, how can I resist?”

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