Jon Meacham Quotes

As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs.

Jon Meacham

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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

Sadhu Vaswani
- Love
- Sacrifice
- Selfish
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid
- Good
- Men
- Value
I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

Teddy Sears
- Life
- Thinking
- Live
We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.

Nathan Wolfe
- Time
- World
- New Things
What can you do? You're never going to be - I'm sure there are people out there who think Cindy Crawford isn't pretty.

Katee Sackhoff
- People
- Think
- Pretty
As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.

Frances O'Grady
- People
- Up
- Work