"If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race."

-- Henry Louis Gates

#Kings Quotes #Class Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children.”
“I mean by Society, the totality of concepts of all purely natural relations and institutions between man and man.”

Source : Franz Oppenheimer (2017). “The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically”, p.15, The Floating Press
“The English press, are so nosy, and the English seem to love that eavesdropping”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“He who loves not flowers, has lost all love and fear of God.”

Source : "Tales of Fairy land".
“Belief is only the beginning...”

Source : Twitter post from Oct 29, 2015
“I don't think estates are grim places.”
“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.”

Source : Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”
“I get an award for being the best dressed, but at the end of the day I'm not Daphne Guinness. I don't like people to look at me for my dress. The letter is more important than the envelope. But if you feel good in your envelope, then you will feel better about yourself.”

Source : "Chris Froome: I can win five more Tour de France titles". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. August 13, 2015.

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