"The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work."

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Source : Harold Washington, Alton Miller (1988). “Climbing a Great Mountain: Selected Speeches of Mayor Harold Washington”

Harold Washington

#Action Quotes #Affirmative Quotes #Fallacy Quotes

“That's my No. 1 goal. I want to be part of (captain) Tom Lehman 's team.”
“If someone else is paying for it, food just tastes a lot better.”
“I never want to produce anything that a family could not enjoy together. I never want to create art that would embarrass my own children later.”
“Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.”

Source : Sarah Doudney (2017). “Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns”, p.71, Lulu.com
“I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?”
“So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo?”
“What was more brutal than loss of hope?”
“The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.”

Source : Boris Sidis (1917). “Philistine and Genius”

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