"Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble."

-- Hazel Scott

#Justice Quotes #Black Quotes #World Quotes

“I know the strengths and weaknesses of my teammates. I make my passing decisions accordingly”
“Fairness is not about statistical equality.”

Source : "The Saturday interview: John Bercow". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.
“God is not going to send us a bill for solar energy, but the gas industry will.”
“FAITH Coming unto God, I believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him: I know that my Redeemer liveth; that He is the Christ the Son of the Living God; that He is indeed the Saviour of the world; that He came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief. Through the grace of Jesus Christ we believe that we shall be saved even as our fathers withal. I believe verily to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.”

Source : Lancelot Andrewes (1949). “The Preces Privatae of Lancelot Andrewes”
“You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid.”

Source : "Rabin legacy casts long shadow over Barak, peace process" by Jerrold Kessel, www.cnn.com. November 3, 1999.
“Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.”
“Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.”
“I don't need to improve the look of my own if I don't even know what it looks like.”

Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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