#other

My role model was my grandfather. He instilled in me the feeling that no matter how successful you are you have a responsibility to help others. ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#grandfather #help #help others #how #instilled

I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom. ↗

— Lonnie Earl Johnson

#angry #children #cloud #counts #course

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#age #become #century #complex #defenseless

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#argument #believe #brilliant #case #chain

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#life #lot #my life #one thing #other

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#face #got #grandmother #had #her

One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#brilliant #college #day #ended #first

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me of when we were just starting out because we would open for other bands in the beginning. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#bands #because #beginning #brings #challenge

We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families. ↗

— Marion Jones

#families #only #other #our #persons

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win. ↗

— Mother Jones

#bayonets #because #constitution #end #had