Amelia Boynton Robinson Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. His hope was that she would finish her damn book quietly and just leave; that one morning he would awaken and go up to the attic, and Anne Frank would be gone, and he could go on with his life, Anne-free. One hundred percent Frankless. Now with Less Genocide.

Shalom Auslander

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

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#5. The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.

Orson Pratt

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

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#7. You'll be really sorry of you try to bypass all the detours. You don't want to get to your destination and not remember anything about the trip.

Gwen Hayes

#8. The riots were a turning point in Ben-Gurion's

Anita Shapira

#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 first question to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thought or action contribute to, or interfere with, the achievement, by me and the greatest possible number of other individuals, of man's Final End?

Aldous Huxley

#11. I learned that people don't buy anything from unknown stores.

Tadashi Yanai

#12. Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

William Morris

#13. You're everything I write about in my songs, but can never have.

Abbi Glines

#14. Desires are done by the 'Pudgal' (non-self mind-body-complex), so how can they be suppressed? If You (the Self) are the one doing the desiring, then why don't you stop it? But that doesn't happen therefore, desire is a matter pertaining to the Pudgal (non-self mind-body-complex).

Dada Bhagwan

#15. 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

#16. The heart of a woman is the best mirror you can find.

Erin Loechner

#17. A voteless people is a hopeless people.

Amelia Boynton Robinson

#18. I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.

Jonathan Tropper

#19. For it is not true that an uneventful time in the past is remembered as fast. On the contrary, it takes the time-stones of events t give a memory past dimension. Eventlessness collapses time.

John Steinbeck

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

Veronica Roth