#would

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#after #argument #as far as #commitment #day

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#been #black #had #his #killing

James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#brown #father #had #i #james

I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#down #experiences #fax #few #find

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#astronaut #found #genie #her #history

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#before #first #hollywood #i #reader

I do not go lightly. If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state. ↗

— Kevin Shelley

#anything #continue #could #go #i

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#character #daring #energy #had #him

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#contain #ever #lightning #poetry #sword

And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure human rights check, have everything going for them that you would like to have. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#everything #going #human #human rights #like