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Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking. ↗

— James L. Farmer, Jr.

#anyone #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #during

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs. ↗

— James L. Farmer, Jr.

#martyrs #our #past #possess #tomorrow

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people. ↗

— James L. Farmer, Jr.

#change #city #educated #educated people #education

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#common #delirium #love #love is #many

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world. ↗

— James Buchan

#come #commissioned #conqueror #dispassionate #english

Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need. ↗

— James Buchan

#competitive #conspicuous #consumption #creates #desires

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. ↗

— John Buchan

#barbarism #bring #civilization #division #earth

I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years. ↗

— Larry Buchanan

#acting #bit #contract #doing #fox

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world. ↗

— Pat Buchanan

#play #world

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest. ↗

— Pat Buchanan

#just #like #newspaper #post #priest