Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.
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The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.
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When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.
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It was a great privilege for me and my teammates to follow in the footsteps of sporting greats like Roger Federer and Tiger Woods.
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Boxing is the most beautiful thing after women.
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
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I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
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Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.
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And so, now things that are important are, for example, the upcoming elections. It's important that society demonstrate that it is not pretending that these elections are elections.
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Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
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This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.
