1963 Black Parents Quotes

#1. In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. The reader lives a thousand lives, while the non-reader only lives one.

Anonymous

#3. People are not evil; they are schlemiels.

Abraham Maslow

#4. My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

Yehuda Amichai

#5. Why is it so important for you to give back? I honestly feel like it's our responsibility as citizens of the world to ground ourselves in selflessness and all do our part.

Solange Knowles

#6. The true - the true economy has got to come back into balance with the very biosphere that sustains us. And I think a lot of people just see the green economy as a different way of allowing the corporate agenda to continue to flourish.

David Suzuki

#7. Do SMART Boards and iPads really change pedagogy for the millions of students institutionally ostracized based on their race, religion, or gender? Or are they merely Band-Aids that can be used to say, "Oh look, we did something and we never had to get our hands dirty to make it happen"?

Jose Vilson

#8. Silly gardeners! We buy pretty, comfortable benches and position them oh so carefully. But does the gardener ever sit? No! We perch momentarily and then jump up to do that next thing we see.

Janet Macunovich

#9. Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.

Larry Bird

#10. My favourite thing is to come down to London from my home in Staffordshire in the helicopter and then get my bike out of the back and cycle into London. It's wonderful.

John Caudwell