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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 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 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 walking-sticks genius
No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution. H. L. Mencken
lynching people tendencies
You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people. Jacques Verges
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
lynching white america
The continued lynchings and other crimes against negroes, whether in New England or the South, and unspeakable political exponents of white supremacy, according to all recorded history, augur ill for America's future. Helen Keller
years trying records
I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live. Beck
years records always-working
I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.
years holocaust bells
I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.
years lasts songwriting
I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.
years important next-year
It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure. Barry Ritholtz
years giving sublime
Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget. Barry Lopez
years lakes people
The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people! Babatunde Osotimehin
years house tunisia
I'm working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings. Azzedine Alaia
years people realizing
It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music. B. B. King
two half reason
Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole. Becca Fitzpatrick
two chocolate looks
You’ve got food stuck in your teeth,” Vee told Marcie. “In the crack between your two front teeth. Looks like chocolate Ex-Lax …
two evil hey
Hey now, none of that. You know I don't have one evil bone in my body. Only two hundred and six of them?
two chocolate would-be
It would be like a cleansing diet. The problem was, the only diet I'd ever been on backfired. Once I tried to go an entire month without chocolate. Not one bite. At the end of two weeks, I broke down and binged on more chocolate that I would have eaten in three months. I hoped my chocolate-free diet didn't foreshadow what would happen if I tried to avoid Patch.
two black singers
Being a blues singer is like being black two times.
two voice guitar
I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.
two construction-workers matter
I've spent my whole working life standing up for workers. Didn't matter if it was the two trapped miners at Beaconsfield or professional netballers or indeed factory workers or construction workers. Bill Shorten
two giving choices
There are two ways to look at most problems... 'Oh Crap!' or, 'Good Information!,' and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future. Bill Crawford
two firsts want
To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.