Ida B. Wells Quotes

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

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• I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

  

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• As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

  

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• I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.

  

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• It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

  

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• Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

  

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• In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

  

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• I am a citizen of the world.

  

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• Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

  

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• For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

  

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• The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.

  

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• If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

  

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• What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.

  

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• What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

  

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• I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.

  

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• Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.

  

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• I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.

  

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• It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

  

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• Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.

  

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• The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

  

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• It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on law with an emphasis on what is permitted.

  

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• My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.

  

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• Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Law
  • Place
  • Civilization