Sidney Poitier Quotes
There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.
Sidney Poitier
Quotes to Explore
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Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it.
Confucius
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Somebody must have sense enough to meet hate with love. Somebody must have sense enough to meet physical force with soul force. If we will but try this way, we will be able to change these conditions and yet at the same time win the hearts and souls of those who have kept these conditions alive a way as old as the insights of Jesus of Nazareth, as modern as the techniques of Mohandas K. Gandhi. There is another way.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Think of the poorest person you know and see if your next act will be of any use to him.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity."
Harry Bridges
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Clearly people should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness! But I think that for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy. We're doing a job that is not a celebrity job or an entertainment or fashion job.... In a professional setting, treat us as professionals.... And it takes a lot of time. I've often laughed with my male colleagues, like, "What did you do? You took a shower, you combed your hair, you put your clothes on. I couldn't do that."
Hillary Clinton
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The implied terms of the racial contract are visible everywhere for those willing to see them.
Justin Brannan
Caninus
