#hal

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#liberty #problem #race #race problem #shall

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #alex #back #case #envy

It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#death #emerge #greater #heroism #humanity

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#demanded #doubt #equal #every #half

I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#get #half #i #i write #into

Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for. ↗

— Rex Stout

#because #depth #grew #had #hemingway

Our employers today face numerous challenges and stiff competition from businesses all over the world. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#challenges #competition #employers #face #numerous

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#brought #children #determined #father #find

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#amass #america #anyone #anyway #bad

The war on terror is a fight that we did not start, but it is one that we shall finish. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#fight #finish #shall #start #terror