"Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so."

-- Andrew Young

#Believe Quotes #Rights Quotes #August Quotes

“The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.”
“Corr stood here," Sean says wonderingly. "I would've died. He didn't have to stay." For a moment, I see that it doesn't matter that he didn't win. The fact of Corr's loyalty is a bigger thing than the ownership of him.”
“When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.”
“Your ChoicES TodaY DeterMinE Your TomorroW And You Make YouR LifE ThrougH The PoweR OF Choice”
“The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.”
“Listen,â€ F. Jasmine said. â€œWhat Iâ€™ve been trying to say is this. Doesnâ€™t it strike you as strange that I am I, and you are you? I am F. Jasmine Addams. And you are Berenice Sadie Brown. And we can look at each other, and touch each other, and stay together year in and year out in the same room. Yet always I am I, and you are you. And I canâ€™t ever be anything else but me, and you can ever be anything else but you. Have you ever thought of that? And does it seem to you strange?”
“Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.”
“I think 90% of women that I come into contact with are fans of [my hair].”

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