Bernice King Quotes
As I reflect on the legacy of my father, the greatest aspect is his legacy of peace.
Bernice King
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We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.
Katha Pollitt
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My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
S. E. Hinton
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True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, it's our own true nature.
Tara Brach
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For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
Harold Evans
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I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.
Randi Weingarten
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I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos Santana. I'd hear Queen. I'd hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.
Action Bronson
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The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In spite of human pride, he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race - the image of our Maker. Hold him then to be a Man.
William H. Seward
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All societies based on slavery tend to be marked by this agonizing double consciousness: the awareness that the highest things one has to strive for are also, ultimately, wrong; but at the same time, the feeling that this is simply the nature of reality.
David Graeber
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The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man on the planet.
Jeremy Renner
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As I reflect on the legacy of my father, the greatest aspect is his legacy of peace.
Bernice King
