Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Quotes

History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

• History
• Slavery
• Judgment
• Tyrants
• Human Freedom

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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.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Long
  • Song

• Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Now
  • Africa
  • Cyber

• It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • Important
  • Strong

• Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.

  

  Lactantius
  • Nature
  • Son
  • Island

• When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Couple

• I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?

  

  Harold Prince
  • American
  • Think
  • You

• The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Life
  • Real
  • Father

• I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Small
  • Born
  • California

• The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • History
  • Nation
  • Conviction

• It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • City
  • Thought
  • British

• Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Country
  • Know

• In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Energy
  • Attention

• In Majorca, I can be myself. I go to the supermarket and the cinema, and I am just Rafa. Everyone knows me, and it is no big deal. I can go all day - no photographs.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Cinema
  • Photographs
  • Supermarket

• When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's something so cool and magical about that. It takes you to a special place very quickly.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Music
  • Morning
  • Cool

• I can't stand Willy wet-leg, can't stand him at any price. He's resigned, and when you hit him he lets you hit him twice.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

• I don't know if you're alive or dead. Can you on earth be sought, Or only when the sunsets fade Be mourned serenely in my thought?

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Earth

• On Yom Kippur The rabbi intones that today is the day that God will put your name in the Book of Life... or the Book of DEATH. I'm five, and I'm going, 'Uhhh, what the fuck is that? The book of WHAT?!?' Death? Death was not anything that had ever occurred to me. My greatest fear was that my parents were going to leave me in a grocery store.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Life
  • God
  • Book

• The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • American
  • Political
  • Air

• It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the problems ... However, with faith and perseverance, ... complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • History
  • Peace
  • Justice

• Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Just
  • Out
  • Troublemakers

• On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Earth
  • Peace
  • Trust

• I like having pairs of characters to play off each other. I love drawing Batman, but he's more fun with Robin. Batman charges ahead, Robin jumps off the walls. It's fun showing that contrast.

  

  Jim Lee
  • Fun
  • Drawing
  • Batman

• It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

  

  John Caudwell
  • Time
  • Important
  • Children

• History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.

  

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
  • History
  • Slavery
  • Judgment