Top 27 Eleanor Holmes Norton Quotes
#2. The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
#3. I have gained this by philosophy ... I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
Aristotle.
#4. There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people.
Smokey Robinson
#5. It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.
Raymond Chandler
#6. The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
#7. On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
#8. Love lives within her smile, so we smile together, for love always gives us a reason.
Delano Johnson
#9. There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
#10. I don't believe that, with the click of a mouse, you should be able to buy unlimited amounts of ammunition.
Bob Menendez
#11. The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
#13. Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday life. It remains the possibility of the majority to accept the call to change.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
#14. With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
#15. If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
#17. I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting for anything I've done.
Nate Lowman
#18. One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
#19. But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.
Lope De Vega
#20. Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
#22. And Kristin Hersh made total sense on 4AD. There was something wide-eyed and extraordinary about her, something emotional and visceral, something basic and yet complex.
Martin Aston
#23. The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#24. She clued me in to the idea of alternate realities. Like, there are infinite versions of the world. Each a bit different. Existing, I don't know where...somewhere. And an alternate reality is created every time we make a choice.
Aaron Starmer
#25. All along the avenue, cotton candy stands, fun houses, and games of chance were tightly shuttered, like clowns without makeup.
William Hjortsberg
#26. He understands now why kisses in movies are filmed the way they are, with the camera endlessly circling, circling: the ground is unsteady under his.
Cassandra Clare
#27. It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
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