#eli

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#disbelief #ignorance #lack #regardless #truth

The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#agents #been #between #business #commercial

What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #become #been #believe #black

When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#believe #built #came #cities #denied

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#child #deaths #diarrhea #just #leading

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#also #because #believe #how #move

Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#buy #clothes #expensive #them #you

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#his #never #politician #quite #says

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#action #alone #deliberation #many #work

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#had #help #i #i was raised #moral