#rig

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state. ↗

— Jim Garrison

#been #books #championing #country #i

The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself. ↗

— Ina Garten

#allowed #been #bread #carbohydrates #cookies

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. ↗

— Marcus Garvey

#history #knowledge #like #origin #past

You learn, right, a lot of people's problems - why they get upset, why they get down, why they turn to drink - is because they can't say one word and it's N-O, no. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#down #drink #get #learn #lot

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#comes #easy #evil #how #judge

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#characteristic #commonplace #hour #impose #itself

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right. ↗

— Bill Gates

#brilliant #come #i #ideas #image

For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #been #colors #diversity #else

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#civil rights #civil rights movement #i #movement #rights

Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#about #black #capitalist #center #century