Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
After we testified before the Credentials Committee in Atlantic City, their Mississippi representative testified also. He said I got 600 votes but when they made the count in Mississippi, I was told I had 388 votes. So actually it is no telling how many votes I actually got.
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love.
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I feel like I personally have been lucky.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.
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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.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
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Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.
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One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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After World War II, communities and the trust they fostered began to erode in the United States. We moved away from dense city centers to fenced in suburban lots separated by broad highways.
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I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.
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After we testified before the Credentials Committee in Atlantic City, their Mississippi representative testified also. He said I got 600 votes but when they made the count in Mississippi, I was told I had 388 votes. So actually it is no telling how many votes I actually got.
