William Lacy Clay, Jr. Quotes

It's an issue that we need to have a national discussion about, the militarization of local police forces, and then when they are used to quell peaceful demonstration. Then we have a problem, and especially around this entire case of the murder of Michael Brown at the hands of a Ferguson police officer.

William Lacy Clay, Jr.

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• We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Justice
  • Peaceful

• The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • World
  • Culture
  • Peaceful

• I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Happy
  • Peaceful
  • Be Happy

• Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Why
  • Business
  • Peaceful

• Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Writing
  • Peaceful
  • Grades

• Consider this: The United States held its first presidential election in 1789. It marked the first peaceful transfer of executive power between parties in the fourth presidential election in 1801, and it took another 200 years' worth of presidential elections before the courts had to settle an election.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Power
  • Presidential
  • Election

• James Garner is like a peaceful river through our chaos.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Chaos
  • River
  • Peaceful

• For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Peace
  • Peaceful
  • Imperialism

• May we soon enjoy the fruits of our labor in a peaceful and united Germany.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • May
  • Enjoy
  • Peaceful

• By strengthening the three pillars of the United Nations - security, development and human rights - we can build a more peaceful, more prosperous and more just world for our succeeding generations.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Security
  • Peaceful

• How could you not learn from Cher with her work ethic and the way she commands attention when she walks into a room, but exudes such peaceful tranquility and love for everyone. She just makes you feel warm and welcome and more inspired to do a better job because you want to step up to the plate.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Work
  • Job
  • Attention

• The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

  

  Weegee
  • Beautiful
  • Society
  • Photograph

• Iran . . . has failed to take the opportunity to demonstrate that its nuclear program is peaceful . . . time is not unlimited.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Peaceful

• I declare a holy war, my Moslem brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all.

  

  Haj Amin al-Husseini
  • War
  • Brother
  • Murder

• Everything we do is infused with the energy in which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we are peaceful, life will be peaceful.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Peaceful

• On so many levels [S.E. Cupp]’s a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Work
  • Perfect
  • Demonstration

• One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Hero
  • Murder
  • Millions

• What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • May
  • War
  • Gold

• I am not prone to indulge in effeminate demonstration, but I am not ashamed to confess that when I gazed on the weather-beaten though ruddy countenance of my old companion, and observed the eager glance of his bright blue eyes, I was quite overcome, and rushed violently into his arms.

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Indulge
  • Demonstration
  • Prone

• Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

  

  William Goldman
  • Fool
  • Victim
  • Classic

• Honey is a magic elixir—made from the tiny drops of nectar taken from hearts of flowers, carried by little bee feet to a secret cave where it is transformed by time into thick gold sweetness.

  

  Barbara O'Neal
  • Secret
  • Hearts
  • Honey

• I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Competition
  • Deserve
  • Entitlement

• It's an issue that we need to have a national discussion about, the militarization of local police forces, and then when they are used to quell peaceful demonstration. Then we have a problem, and especially around this entire case of the murder of Michael Brown at the hands of a Ferguson police officer.

  

  William Lacy Clay, Jr.
  • Murder
  • Peaceful
  • Demonstration