#is

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough. ↗

— Bill Gates

#been #careful #diseases #few #pick

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to. ↗

— Bill Gates

#money #often #private #risks #take

No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head. ↗

— Daryl Gates

#beforehand #done #film #had #head

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#before #believe #brown #corrupted #difficult

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#conscience #countries #disease #evil #physicians

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

— W. Clement Stone

#disbelief #ignorance #lack #regardless #truth

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#criminal justice #criminal justice system #figure #i #i think

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#arrived #art #been #before #being

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#ascribe #back #brilliant #calculating #circumstances

The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#axis #power #sword #world