#just

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#been #defined #failure #his #hopeful

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#duty #expressed #freedom #great things #honor

If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so. ↗

— Richard Rosen

#because #conditioned #dogs #end #ever

I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color. ↗

— Gary Ross

#been #black #black and white #color #dream

My uncle who helped in a big part of raising me from when I was young, had moved from California, and would just tell me these legendary stories of these motorcycle clubs that he was around and that he used to ride with. ↗

— Theo Rossi

#big #california #clubs #had #helped

It was around this time that I started thinking about how skin color defined class. The cowboy movies that fueled the goodness of ‘White’ reinforced attaching ‘darkness’ to a class. I finally took notice that the crayon color called ‘flesh’ did not match mine. ↗

— Luis Quiros

#inspirational #race-relations #social-justice #inspirational

From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#drive #each #just #lived #lives

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#healing #inspirational #justice #sacrifice #inspirational

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest. ↗

— William Penn

#inspirational #justice #truth #inspirational

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#book #charm #contains #dwells #echoes