"All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases."

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Source : Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

Chief Joseph

#Mother Quotes #Running Quotes #Brother Quotes

“Well I can understand why men want it to be legal. Obviously they're all hoping they might get to marry me someday. I hate to burst their bubble, but they should just give it up now. Zach Braff doesn't sway that way, you know?”
“Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia.”
“Black people don't hijack planes, alright? Now I'll be the first to admit, we steal a lot of stuff, but we do not hijack planes. In fact, in the history of aviation, a black person has never even attempted to hijack a plane. Do you want to know why? Because you can't sell an airplane.”
“I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.”

Source : The Gold Coast Bulletin, en.wikiquote.org. October 26, 2002.
“Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.”
“Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness.”
“Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most, and stay in school the longest. Conversely, those who dont read much cannot get better at it.”

Source : Jim Trelease (2013). “The Read-Aloud Handbook: Seventh Edition”, p.29, Penguin

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