Nannie Burroughs Quotes

#1. What we need are mental and spiritual giants who are aflame with a purpose ... We're a race ready for crusade, for we've recognized that we're a race on this continent that can work out its own salvation.

Nannie Helen Burroughs

#2. I know when I look good, I feel good. I know when I come home and my house is in order, everything else seems to fall into place for me. Shouldn't we strive for that all of the time?

Nannie Helen Burroughs

#3. I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#4. Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.

Kristan Higgins

#5. I will say, just being here, God is good, man ...

Derrick Rose

#6. Education and justice are democracy's only life insurance.

Nannie Helen Burroughs

#7. When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even on the stage. He will rise in the majesty of his own soul.

Nannie Helen Burroughs

#8. The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

Cesare Pavese

#9. As for wondering if it's okay to be who you are--that's not a symptom of mental illness. That's a symptom of being a person.

Jeff Garvin

#10. Anything that is as old as racism is in the blood line of the nation. It's not any superficial thing-that attitude is in the blood and we have to educate about it.

Nannie Helen Burroughs

#11. At times we feel wounded, hurt, disappointed, disgusted, resentful, sick of it all. At other times we feel skeptical, outraged, robbed, beaten. We chafe, hate, overlook. Then again we feel like ignoring, defying and fighting for every right that belongs to us as human beings.

Nannie Helen Burroughs

#12. To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve.

Nannie Helen Burroughs

#13. I like shocking people just because, like, I can wear a dress, too. Not even for people to go, 'Oh she's grown up,' but to show people that I'm actually a girl.

Maisie Williams

#14. America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.

Ian Frazier

#15. Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying.

Nannie Helen Burroughs

#16. Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives

Barry Goldwater

#17. Everybody doesn't want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.

Tim Cook