Lynchings In Georgia Quotes

#1. He [God] chooses not to intervene in the world. Why not? Because he figures he's done enough and the rest is up to us? Or he wouldn't know where to begin? Or because he's in awe of his own miracle? That's how I picture him, his mouth slightly agape, his eyes wide in disbelief.

Jon Cohen

#2. You don't pay a prostitute for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards.

Dashiell Hammett

#3. Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb through the tide
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side.

Jim Morrison

#4. The child entered the hut.
The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to himself: - I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors.

Victor Hugo

#5. If she'd known him better, she might've tried to explain to Will that life never lets you hide. Plant, animal, or human - life forced them all to grow and learn. The more you tried to run, the harder your path got, and you'd still have to travel it.

Cornelia Funke

#6. Well, there they were, the masters of the earth, canned like tuna on wheels and blind as bats, their heads full of mischief and their newspapers of blood.

Salman Rushdie

#7. I was very fortunate that I saved my money and I still do.

Rod Stewart

#8. The longing of every heart is to be loved.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. From 1882 to 1930, Florida recorded more lynchings of black people (266) than any other state, and from 1900 to 1930, a per capita lynching rate twice that of Mississippi, Georgia, or Louisiana.

Gilbert King

#10. Money's the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.

Bill Cunningham

#11. Taking a shaky breath, I spoke. "Well, recently, I learned how much my words affect people, even if it's just one word.

Darcy Ridge

#12. In the monastery, you are always in some kind of a situation where you are pressured so that your worst qualities come up. But you actually want that to happen so you can deal with them

Muni Natarajan

#13. Few people realize how much courage it takes in a community like ours to ignore the established taboos.

Dorothea Benton Frank