#right

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#could #deprived #economically #every #every time

My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York. ↗

— Tom Felton

#bright lights #even #forward #her #i

So I think that if I do feel more freedom right now in my career, it's not so much because I have less at stake but more a sense that I've learned more. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#career #feel #freedom #i #i do

You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing. ↗

— Emily Carr

#experiment #feeling #into #out #right

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor. ↗

— John Churton Collins

#claim #favor #never #right #you

You always have to challenge yourself or else you get soft. Right? ↗

— Diane Kruger

#challenge #else #get #right #soft

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#did #human #human rights #invent #invented

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me. ↗

— Charles Keating

#complicated #computers #did #extraordinarily #frighten

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#generation #happiness #human #human rights #inhabitants

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#artist #book #build #computer #doing