#stand

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#disbelief #ignorance #lack #regardless #truth

Color categories are on steroids in Latin America. I find that fascinating. It's very difficult for Americans, particularly African-Americans to understand or sympathize with. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#categories #color #difficult #fascinating #find

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#against #america #anti-semitic #based #best

I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#children #i #i think #lot #need

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

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#brilliant #clothes #eternal #life #like

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#change #i #i am #life #people

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#blood #children #earth #egyptians #expecting

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ↗

— Doug Larson

#elation #feel #real #standing #star

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#claim #conservatives #defend #distorted #modern

People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment. ↗

— David Frum

#people #process #punishment #understand #washington