Josephine Baker Quotes
Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.
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The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.
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You don't talk to terror organizations!
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The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
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And thus He mused: 'From here, indeedShall we strike terror in the Swede?And here a city by our laborFounded, shall gall our haughty neighbor;'Here cut' – so Nature gives command –Your window through on Europe; standFirm-footed by the sea, unchanging!
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An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.
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It gives you hope in salvation and perspective in the life that we live today. It's nice to know there's good out there in a world full of terror and evil.
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We should fight terror, by all means, but not at the cost of cutting off any chance of talks with the pragmatists.
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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
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He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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They wanted me for short relief, ... I joined them in St. Louis and they promptly lost seven in a row. I never pitched because they were never ahead.
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The most terrible of all things is terror.
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Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive.
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Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
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The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes
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The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.
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... there is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have fought and bled and died, like men, to make this country what it is. And if they have got to suffer and die, and be lynched, and tortured, and burned at the stake, I say they are at home.
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I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
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Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves
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I think in the real world that's probably correct. That would give federal matching funds. It would mean no more ballot access woes.
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They were obviously covering up for each other on the fight, both sides covering up the fight.
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Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.
