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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

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

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

Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#based #china #closer #dialogue #forge

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. ↗

— Ann Landers

#bad #bad times #caught #confidence #fire

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#dislike #general #incomprehensible #obnoxious #people

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#around #go #got #over #problem

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#bottom #choose #get #gotten #mind

I believe that connecting with other moms is so important; after all, we are all on this crazy journey together and no one understands what we're going through better than each other. ↗

— Ali Landry

#believe #better #connecting #crazy #each