Morris Dees Quotes
What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.
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I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
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Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
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In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
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At the end of the day, a 34B doesn't give you self-esteem.
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Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
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Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.
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I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.
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I want to become more famous, even more famous.
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The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
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Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.
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Everybody should get married - once. I was 25.
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I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.
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Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.
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The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered as an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the moment he committed the crime.
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Even if your bosoms are your best asset, deep round-neck or scoop-neck Ts can be too revealing. Offset this flash of gorgeousness by covering up your arms with a little cardi that has sleeves to the elbow.
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I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'
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We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves.
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The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.
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With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.
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What the Nazis did to the Jews in Europe, plantation owners and law enforcement [officers] were doing to the African-Americans.
