"World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds"

-- Mary McLeod Bethune

#Race Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Brotherhood Quotes

“There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.”

Source : Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie (1977). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.159, Simon and Schuster
“We women have to stick together.”
“There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.”
“Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy - you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body.”
“Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins.”

Source : "Out Where theWest Begins" l. 1 (1916)
“We must keep in mind that where the road is crooked, God makes it straight, and where our hearts are wounded, God makes us whole. As we open our hearts in purity and simplicity, admitting to God that we are completely powerless in the area of our problem, His illumination redeems us.”
“There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good.”
“Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.”

Source : "What’s the Beef With the Trans-Pacific Partnership and U.S. Food Safety?" by Billy Mason, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2015.

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