Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses and crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the Negro by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples.
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I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.
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Happiness is very simple and minimal.
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I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.
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To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
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Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.
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For he who fights and runs awayMay live to fight another day;But he who is in battle slainCan never rise and fight again.
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Charisms are not distributed at random but are dispensed by God to supply what is needful and lacking in his Church at each historical moment. If they are from God, they usually do not flow with the latest fashionable trend but much more likely contain an antidote and remedy for the perils of the time.
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It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
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When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.
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There's room for saying things in bright shiny colours.
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The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear.
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To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fair judgement is just wrong. It's just not how the judicial system works in our country and not how it ever can work.
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The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that's clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking very well.
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I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
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I grew up playing hockey and some football, and I always think about the first time you walk into the locker room on a new team. The cliques are looking at you funny, and you make one friend, but then they're trying to stab you in the back.
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There are three juridical attributes that inseparably belong to the citizen by right. These are:
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I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.
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The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses and crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the Negro by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples.
