Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.Charles B. Rangel
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were gay, just for starters. They didn't have a name for it, but their primary affections and intellectual attractions were all for other men.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.
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Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.
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Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.
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Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized.
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The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.
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Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid. Courage means we refuse to be mastered by fear.
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It's easy, once the lamps are lit, to scoff at shadows.
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“Money to Burn” is a fantasy. I mean, I would love for that to be a true story. Most of my songs are written in metaphors.
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The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.
Charles B. Rangel
