Killens Quotes

#1. Curiosity is the other side of caution.

Temple Grandin

#2. My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

John Oliver Killens

#3. I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.

Kate Winslet

#4. somewhat vague) new relationship between the United States

Condoleezza Rice

#5. When a woman doesn't live sufficiently through her body, she comes to see the body as an enemy.

Milan Kundera

#6. Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

John Oliver Killens

#7. Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.

Paulo Coelho

#8. Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated.

John Oliver Killens

#9. Is it how it feels to do the right things? Because it sucks!

Susan Vaught

#10. The Negro was invented in America.

John Oliver Killens

#11. We have to undo the millions of little white lies that America told itself and the world aboutthe American Black man.

John Oliver Killens

#12. What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!

John Oliver Killens

#13. Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.

John Oliver Killens

#14. Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.

Peter Garrett

#15. Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.

John Oliver Killens

#16. The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.

U Thant

#17. Along with the fight to desegregate schools, we must desegregate the entire cultural statement of America, we must desegregate the minds of the American people or we will find that we have won the battle and lost the war.

John Oliver Killens

#18. Neither the life of anarchy nor the life enslaved by tyrants, no, worship neither. Strike the balance all in all and god will give you power.

Aeschylus

#19. The ambition of most beings is just to stay alive, overeat, spend too much, and avoid hard work. I'm happy that I can achieve much more than that ... and we all die sooner or later. A death in service of a great ideal is a fine thing.

Karen Traviss

#20. the houses much smaller and meek and timid and nondescript, and even the trees were scantily clad.

John Oliver Killens

#21. Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.

Charles M. Schulz

#22. I plan to coach at University of Louisville for as long as I can maintain the passion I have for the game of basketball. I don't want to coach anywhere else. I don't believe in anything else as much as I believe in this university and this state. I want to coach as long as they will have me.

Rick Pitino

#23. The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.

John Oliver Killens

#24. It lies like a leper in purple, it sits like a dead thing smeared with gold.

Oscar Wilde