"And the fact that Emmett Till, a young black man, could be found floating down the river in Mississippi, as, indeed, many had been done over the years, this set in concrete the determination of people to move forward."

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Source : "Eyes on the Prize" Interview, repository.wustl.edu. November 7, 1985.

Fred Shuttlesworth

#Determination Quotes #Moving Quotes #Men Quotes

“True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.”
“I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power.”
“I played softball at George Washington University and then I played professionally for the Mid-Michigan Ice. I had a couple of tryouts with the US Olympic Team but I don't know if I have a word to describe how bad one of the tryouts was. It was the worst tryout in the history of tryouts. It was that bad. So I totally bombed it and thought my chances of being an Olympian were over.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“TV is all new to me because I came from features.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.”

Source : Lord Dunsany (2015). “The Book of Wonder”, Simon and Schuster
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.”
“Everything was set for us to play a real good game. Then we left the dressing room and everything went to hell.”

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