"The Republican Party just isn't held in high repute in the black community. Under Bill Brock we were reaching out to broaden the base of the party. We have to go back to that."

-- Charles H. Percy

#Party Quotes #Community Quotes #Black Quotes

“To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.”
“This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.”
“As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.”

Source : "Robert Plant: Born In England; Made In America". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 20, 2010.
“Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.”

Source : Song: Each Small Candle
“One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites.”
“Those who elected Hamas in Palestine did so on the basis of its political platform.”
“You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.”
“Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.”

Source : Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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