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lynching america important
Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so dramatic, and it was so violent. Bryan Stevenson
lynching people slavery
In most places, when people hear about or see something that is a symbol or representation or evidence of slavery or the slave trade or lynching, the instinct is to cover it up, to get rid of it, to destroy it.
lynching important movement
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. Carter G. Woodson
lynching bridges ties
Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind. D. L. Hughley
lynching white america
All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their white allies came together and they struggled and they stood up for justice and they stood up to lynching and they stood up to segregation and the stood up to a nation where African-Americans couldn't even vote in America. Bernie Sanders
lynching years two
So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and equality and the lowest of low last respect and I'm going to look at two or three white people who are trying to do right and don't see the other million who are trying to kill me? I'm not that big of a fool. Muhammad Ali
lynching earthquakes america
America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes- there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.
lynching government people
The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me. Martin Luther King, Jr.
lynching america united-states
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders Ida B. Wells
american-musician
With me being form the South, I wanted to make this album like a G Unit. Young Buck
american-musician respected
It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
american-scientist both cooperate countries created environment hope nuclear
It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons. Yoshiro Mori
american-scientist country scourge suffered
Japan is the only country in the world which suffered from the scourge of nuclear weapons.
american-novelist marriage
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. Thornton Wilder
american-novelist animals best
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
american-novelist
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
american-novelist among beings decide fools human life moment whether
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
america certain fixed haunting paradox perhaps strange
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. Thomas Wolfe
important should accord
It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than that it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord. Maurice Maeterlinck
important whats-important inspired
What's important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring. Diane von Furstenberg
important fashionable
It is more important to be pretty as a woman than to be fashionable.
important-relationships important
The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.
important virtue hardest
Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest. David Brooks
important whats-important inventory
Constantly take inventory of what's important to you. Dave Chappelle
important known
It's really important to me not to be known as Ross when I'm 60. David Schwimmer
important climate alarmists
Dangerous climate change... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed David Miliband
important way who-we-are
I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are. David McCullough