Ida B. Wells Quotes
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.Ida B. Wells
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
Daniel Defoe -
I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love.
R. Kelly -
I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
Queen Latifah -
They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
Parker Posey -
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.
Adam Cohen
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America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Salman Rushdie -
Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
Nancy Pelosi -
When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
Dane Cook -
If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
Ina Garten -
What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
Oprah Winfrey
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You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you'll always hold that special, but if you're looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you're able to do.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
Vannevar Bush -
We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
Bashar al-Assad -
I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
Hamza Yusuf -
The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.
Hampton Sides -
We encourage the growth of women's hockey.
Gary Bettman
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What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic
Queen Victoria -
Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defence, I cannot venture certainly to affirm... not one angel only has the care of every one of us, but that they all with one consent watch for our salvation.
John Calvin -
I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else. And what was good about it was that I was writing for somebody I knew. I knew what my mother thinks and how she feels. So it was finding that creative spirit to write about my mother.
Teddy Pendergrass -
Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.
Abdu'l-Bahá -
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
Ida B. Wells