"When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist."

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Source : Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: . . . to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.67, Penguin

Andrea Mitchell

#War Quotes #Fire Quotes #Rights Quotes

“I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say I am and that's not up for debate.”
“Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.”
“The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.”
“Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind.”
“You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion.”

Source : "IBM's Ginni Rometty: Growth and comfort do not coexist". Interview with Jessi Hempel, fortune.com. October 5, 2011.
“For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.”
“He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass.”
“At my age flowers scare me.”

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