"I made a lot of friends at school, and they were all Africans. I could have felt very different. I didn't feel different, I didn't notice the color of their skin, I didn't notice the color of my skin and I have remembered that all my life."

-- Mem Fox

#School Quotes #Color Quotes #Skins Quotes

“Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.”
“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.”
“Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.”

Source : Henry Merritt Wriston (1943). “Challenge to freedom”
“Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.”
“There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural.”
“The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.”
“Authors in general don’t have a lot of money, and lawsuits are expensive.”
“Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law.”

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