"When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nationâ€™s slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9)."

-- Shirley Chisholm

#Country Quotes #Believe Quotes #Hypocrite Quotes

“The clock is the most scared thing in a hospital”
“For the investor who knows what he is doing, volatility creates opportunity.”
“Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give.”
“Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with a small axe, every stroke helping to get rid of the unwanted fragments of wood.”

Source : Vidagama Maitreya, Mahasi Sayadaw, Susan Elbaum Jootla, Nyanaponika Thera, Ria Kloppenborg (2013). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XX: Numbers 296–311”, p.76, Buddhist Publication Society
“I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Stupid people are dangerous.”
“I'm neither giving up nor giving in.”

Source : "Charlton Heston Makes Statement About Alzheimer's". "CNN News" with Fredricka Whitfield, transcripts.cnn.com. August 9, 2002.
“The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!”

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