Michelle Alexander Quotes

We have avoided in recent years talking openly and honestly about race out of fear that it will alienate and polarize. In my own view, it’s our refusal to deal openly and honestly with race that leads us to keep repeating these cycles of exclusion and division, and rebirthing a caste-like system that we claim we’ve left behind

Michelle Alexander

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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.

Dana Rohrabacher
- People
- Country
- Enemy
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

Irving Babbitt
- Control
- Happiness
- Path
After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.

Gary Webb
You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.

Patrick Soon-Shiong
- Up
- Believe
- Day
I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.

Yasmine Al Masri
- Life
- Family
- Surviving
I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.

Odell Beckham, Jr.
- Life
- Work
- Hard Work