Amelia Boynton Quotes

#1. I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

Lorraine Toussaint

#2. The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.

Jim Butcher

#3. I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#4. Remember, this is your day and your world.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#5. You can never know where you are going unless you know where you have been.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#6. I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.

Beatrice Sparks

#7. Your whole life is a chain of choices- your choices

Charles Benoit

#8. Happily, financial capitalism and free trade have not done away with national languages and literatures, as Marx rather too blithely hoped.

Pankaj Mishra

#9. I was brought up by people who loved others. I love people. We had no animosity. We had no feeling that we hate anyone.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#10. The little black dress expresses a moment of freedom and individuality every time.

Andre Leon Talley

#11. I looked at Sadie. "What do we do now?" She crossed her arms. "Well, that's obvious, isn't it? We explore the library.

Rick Riordan

#12. This rally must send a message to the Israeli people, to the Jewish people around the world, to the many people in the Arab world, and indeed to the entire world, that the Israeli people want peace, support peace. For this, I thank you.

Yitzhak Rabin

#13. Valentine's Day money-saving tips: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th. In place of bubble bath, use lavender-scented dish-washing liquid. Forget rose petals. Sprinkle the bed with sliced beets!

David Letterman

#14. It's important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#15. we always knew
that good times came
with termination contracts
even if we weren't quite ready
to sign it.

Sanober Khan

#16. Only until all human beings begin to recognize themselves as human beings will prejudice be gone forever. People ask me what race I am, but there is no such thing as race. I just answer: "I'm a member of the human race.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#17. Though it may not seem like it, I never try to write about a place, per se; it's always, first and last, about story. Story is everything. Story and a bit of attitude.

Martin McDonagh

#18. This morning I heard: the hesitancy in her voice wasn't ordinary sincerity but a lot of it, and her tone wasn't only friendly, it was intimate, private, longing. The words, quiet and simple as they were, were strong, deep tosses that landed close, and loud.

Dagoberto Gilb

#19. A voteless people is a hopeless people.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#20. For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.

Tammy Bruce

#21. I wasn't looking for notoriety [when we marched]. But if that's what it took [to get attention], I didn't care how many licks I got. It just made me even more determined to fight for our cause.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#22. Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#23. As a man, I was a failure. A pathetic teacher lusting after Catholic school girls in short skirts. As a monster, I'm superb. It's comforting to know my place in the world.

Thomm Quackenbush