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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
choices justified introduction
Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems. Carl Friedrich Gauss
choices relation
We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both. C. S. Lewis
choices customers feeling good leaving stores themselves walked
We want our customers leaving our stores feeling better than when they walked in the door, and feeling good about themselves and the choices they've made. Paul Clayton
choices want trouble
It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do. Agnes Repplier
choices actors playing-someone
You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things. Aaron Tveit
choices president crystals
I'll be honest with you, I don't agree with President Obama about everything. But I've gotten to know him, I've worked with him, and the choice is crystal clear. Charlie Crist
choices age dies
Each age has its choice of the death it will die. Charles Dudley Warner
choices accountability
Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are. Charles de Lint
choices fruit good-intentions
Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep. Charles Simmons
flow kind mature
You get older and more mature ... you just kind of go with the flow. Carl Crawford
flower boys men
At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root.
flow gets shots within
When he gets his shots within the flow of the offense, he's good.
flower eden rose
My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of a sullen hollow in a livid hillside her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the least and best-loved was – liberty. Charlotte Bronte
flower night ice
A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.
flower hands wish
I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.
flower excellence progress
Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress. Charles Sumner
flower men he-man
There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.
flower memorable thinking
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. Charles Dickens