"Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?"

-- Beah Richards

#Race Quotes #Class Quotes #Justice Quotes

“The public likes to think that women only care about contraception.”
“If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.”
“I always said God was against art and I still believe it.”

Source : Letter to A. J. Jaeger, October 9, 1900.
“I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist”
“No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal.”

Source : "Niecy Nash "Deeply Saddened" After Brother's Killer Is Charged With Murdering His Wife" by Natalie Finn, www.eonline.com. September 17, 2012.
“There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed.”
“My great crime wasn't refusing to represent an innocent man; my great crime was imagining that there was some path to racial justice that did not include those we view as 'guilty'.”
“Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.”

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