#tie

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around. ↗

— Ryan White

#attitudes #changing #could #education #faith

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#anything #been #denied #development #discrimination

We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men. ↗

— Francis Wright

#demand #forget #happiness #hear #labor

I'm doing a very funny show in which we talk about issues. I speak at Aids charities and things. It's great to do something fun with our days and yet we're told we're doing something important. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#aids #charities #days #doing #fun

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. ↗

— Richard Wright

#copied #hearts #men #prisons #realities

Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#continued #conviction #endured #faith #israel

There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#differences #droids #fitting-in #generic #generic-people

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#enough #find #make #men #opportunities

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#priorities #age

Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy.

— Edwidge Danticat

#impatience #joy #age