#new

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'm a tech geek. Whenever I read about something new, I think to myself, How can I take this and make it black? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#black #geek #how #i #i think

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#black #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #class

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

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#country #france #habit #into #marry

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#brilliant #clothes #eternal #life #like

I was young. I was newly married. And I had worked like a dog. I just wanted to live and travel. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#had #i #just #like #live

I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest. ↗

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

#i #jest #jokes #kind #make

I only knew about daily life. It was said, well, it isn't everybody's daily life. That is why I started. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#daily #daily life #everybody #i #knew

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#build #business #existing #new #over