Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
We have been listening year after year to [white people] and what have we got? We are not even allowed to think for ourselves. "I know what is best for you," but they don't know what is best for us! It is time now to let them know what they owe us, and they owe us a great deal.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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I like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I wasn't the biggest Captain America fan, but increasingly, I see him as a great character. Winter Soldier really got into what it meant to actually represent America.
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It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
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When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.
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The Lakers have been nothing but great to me, and I want to keep the relationship great.
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I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.
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It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore.
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We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread.
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I don't like when actors go around and talk a ton about how they approach their roles, because it's a little like pulling the curtain back on Oz, for me.
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Some of the greatest actors on the planet are the most insecure people. Now I don't know if that insecurity necessarily equates to a lack of confidence. Some people are just very shy individuals. You give them a character to play and a script, and you put them in front of a camera or on a stage, and they just go.
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There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.
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We have been listening year after year to [white people] and what have we got? We are not even allowed to think for ourselves. "I know what is best for you," but they don't know what is best for us! It is time now to let them know what they owe us, and they owe us a great deal.
