John Doar Quotes

#1. Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.

John Doar

#2. I always felt that, through it all, there was a really strong, forward, positive, constructive accomplishment by the American people during that period, if you consider that during the period from 1954 to 1965, this country broke through the caste system.

John Doar

#3. Sacrifice and neon lights slave ships don't wait. Love many, trust few, and don't be late

Tom Morello

#4. It's the teacher that makes the difference, not the classroom.

Michael Morpurgo

#5. Destruction is like a snow-ball rolled down a Hill, for its Bulk encreases by its own swiftness and thus Disorder spreads.

Peter Ackroyd

#6. For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work.

John Doar

#7. To me, success is seeing that justice is done.

John Doar

#8. holiness is not only expected; it is the promised birthright of every Christian. Paul's

Jerry Bridges

#9. I have certainly noticed that groups of clever and intelligent people are capable of really stupid ideas.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Being a leader is not about forever, it is about moments ... it is about THIS moment and what you do with it!

Scott Neilson

#11. What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is.

Iyanla Vanzant

#12. The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.

William O'Neill

#13. Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true.

Blaise Pascal

#14. The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

Isaac Asimov

#15. I'm not saying to you that every element of segregation and discrimination and second-class citizenship has changed. But in the political sense, the world has changed. People now who want to vote can vote.

John Doar

#16. What are we doing? Have we really drifted so far off course? We have it all, don't we? We get along, live comfortably. But what's it all really for in the long run?

Lisa Samson

#17. Girl discovers reading, then discovers life.

Nancy Pearl

#18. You're not going to win anything with bottles and bricks.

John Doar