Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!
In teaching me independence of thought, they had given me the greatest gift an adult can give to a child besides love, and they had given me that also.
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While I told myself that each win was a small deposit on the ultimate ownership of the world welterweight crown, the enormous need in me to win touched a whole heap of other responses a fourteen years...
Turning to Ann Gower, she smiled. You’re a good woman, Ann Gower.Ann Gower drew back and looked askance at Mary. Don’t you go ruinin’ me reputation, Mary Abacus. I be a real bad woman, but a bloody go...
The smile, madame, is used by humans to hide the truth, the artist is only interested to reveal the truth.
Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and chang...
In Mexico there is a cactus that even sometimes you would think God forgets. But no, my friends, this is not so. On a full moon in the desert every one hundred years He remembers and opens a single fl...
I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.
Cleverness is a false presumption', Doc had explained, 'it is like being a natural skater, you are so busy doing tricks to impress that you do not see where the thin ice is and before you know, poof!...
But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope.
What is a german? to say a man is a german, what is that? does it tell you if he is a good man? or a bad man? no, my friend, it tells you nothing about a man to say he is german. a man must think what...
Is intended to break the spirit, to render harmless those who are thought to be harmful.
All i know about the bible is that wherever it goes there's trouble. the only time i ever heard of it being useful was when a stretcher bearer i was with at the battle of dundee told me that he'd once...
Nothing is unexplained. Nature is a chain reaction. Everything is dependent on something else. The smallest is as important as the largest
Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the conf...
It seemed certain now that small could defeat big. All it took was brains and skills and heart and a perfect plan.
I spoke the language that had pronounced the sentences that had killed their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the world's first concentration camps
But I started to realize that it doesn't begin like this, that anybody can be the target for prejudice, all you have to be is too something . Too short, too fat, too clever, too big, too small, too sl...