"One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage."

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Source : Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

Margaret Halsey

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“Just look at Andy Roddick. He has the biggest serve on the men's tour and he's not the No. 1 because other parts of his game are not so good. I think it's more important to have the desire and the other parts of your game.”

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“Basically, when I hear it now, I don't recognize myself directly in a lot of cases. I was expecting more menace. And the fact that it didn't seem menacing at first troubled me. Then I thought, What the hey, you know? I'm 66 years old, and I could just crack open a beer and listen to it, and it doesn't trouble me that it doesn't kill. Once upon a time, it probably would have.”

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“My father made sure I was treated equally with my brothers.”
“On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.”
“Any game you play, you got to lose sometime.”
“I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.”
“I have no nationality, no country.”
“George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.”

Source : 'More Biography' (1929) 'George the Third'

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