"Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation in the world, African Americans in Harlem live shorter lives than the people of Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations of the world."

-- Johnnetta B. Cole

#Racism Quotes #People Quotes #Community Quotes

“I am in control. What athlete you know doesn't call the shots? I have the final say.”
“We're professional athletes. People know who we are, and if there's some way we can help with a friend or someone in need, that's a responsibility we have. I really strongly believe that.”
“I happen to believe that if we want to replace a lifetime politician like Barack Obama, who had no experience leading anything, we've got to nominate a leader if we're going to replace someone who is not a leader.”
“In a democracy, it is the people who are sovereign. Therefore, with regard to the promotion of democracy at the local, country and regional levels, civil society must have a stronger voice in all political processes.”

Source : "Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas". July 01, 2013.
“Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.”
“The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.”
“I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's as an ambassador. You realize the more you travel that you are a cultural ambassador for your own country. You never become more patriotic than you do living abroad.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.”

Source : Interview with Stephan Collishaw, www.believermag.com. April 2004.

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