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lynching problem participation
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for. William Westmoreland
lynching choices personality
We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them. William Arthur Ward
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 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. Bryan Stevenson
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 choices flow
If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing. Sean Covey
lynching talking white
If I’d been talking about black trash, I might be lynched. If I was talking about white trash, I’d merely be another torchbearer in an ongoing national lynching. Jim Goad
american-artist materials natural painting power reason
I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that. Keith Haring
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People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.
american-musician joking knowing miles run took
I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.' Joe Henderson
american-entertainer asked bars country guy hank onstage playing tips williams
I was in one of the touristy country bars downtown, and I asked a guy onstage who was playing for tips to play a Hank Williams song. Arthur Godfrey
american-musician crimson soon touring
King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe. Adrian Belew
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Kerry's political attacks are not supported by reality, which shows rising employment and higher wages, and his policies -- higher taxes, increased regulation and bigger government -- would move America backward. Ken Mehlman
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Kerry's focus and his message has really been middle class, middle America, 'I'm standing up for the little guy' and middle class investors respond to that, but that raises the question of how do you go back and talk to the business community after that. Amy Walter
american-sociologist entirely held knowledge observed
Knowledge is held to be an entirely quantitative affair. The one important thing is to have observed what had not been observed before. Talcott Parsons
american-designer beauty designing directed
Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were. Colleen Atwood
united-states oppression consent
There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed Rose Kennedy
united-states dropping inflation
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping. Robert Reich
united-states remains senate
The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life. Robert Torricelli
united-states century late
The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century. Robert M. Gates
united-states financial whole
The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States. Sanford I. Weill
united-states population wealth
The United States is dangerously close to being a plutocracy. A third of the private wealth is owned by less than 5 percent of the population. Robert Payne
united-states kind broads
This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do. Wesley Clark
united-states curious gender
It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States. Zora Neale Hurston
united-states partners china
Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade Zhu Rongji