Sam Phillips Quotes

There was a certain feeling I developed as a young person for black people. Somehow they were able to get pleasure out of things that I couldn't see them enjoying. I heard them sing a lot, and I didn't hear white folks going down the cotton rows singing that much.

Sam Phillips

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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.

W. E. B. Du Bois
- Men
- Black
- Day
In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.

Gayle Forman
- People
- Time
- Fall
I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

V. S. Naipaul
- People
- Business
- Nothing
What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

Natasha Leggero
- People
- Up
- World
Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.

Larry Hogan
- People
- Best
- Educated
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Oscar Wilde
- People
- Past
- Should