Quotes About Emmett Till

#1. I thought about Emmett Till, and I could not go back. My legs and feet were not hurting, that is a stereotype. I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.

Rosa Parks

#2. I thought of Emmett Till, and when the bus driver ordered me to move to the back, I just couldn't move.

Rosa Parks

#3. I think the picture in Jet magazine showing Emmett Till's mutilation was probably the greatest media product in the last forty or fifty years because that picture stimulated a lot of interest and anger on the part of blacks all over the country.

Charles Diggs

#4. I'm too old to be ignorant as I am."
--Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.

Elle Thornton

#5. I think everybody needed to know what had happened to Emmett Till,

Mamie Till

#6. The actual tragedy of Emmett Till, he had told her once, was not the murder of a black child for whistling at a white woman but that some black people thought: But why did you whistle?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#7. Some aweful things happened to a Negro kid named Emmett Till, and I was right in the middle of it,smack in the heart of crazy, senseless hatred.

Chris Crowe

#8. And the fact that Emmett Till, a young black man, could be found floating down the river in Mississippi, as, indeed, many had been done over the years, this set in concrete the determination of people to move forward.

Fred Shuttlesworth

#9. I'm really glad Edward didn't kill you. Everything's so much more fun with you around. - Emmett Cullen

Stephenie Meyer

#10. I wish I could tell you the recipe for figuring out who the target user is for your product and who your users should be, but ... there isn't a recipe. It comes down to think really hard and use your judgement to figure out who you're really building this for.

Emmett Shear

#11. Emmett and I met at a tantric sex education class a year ago,

Mary Calmes

#12. I'll send Ria to you. Save you sneaking up the wall.

Nalini Singh

#13. I'm ashamed to say that getting behind the wheel of Dirk's shiny Penismobile was actually a lot of fun.

Emmett Spain

#14. I mean, electric shock? Isn't that a bit ... electric shock-y?

Emmett Spain

#15. Procrastination expert Rita Emmett explains: "The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.

Barbara Oakley

#16. I know mine own!"--Walter Emmett Velvet, the Antichrist

A.R. Braun

#17. Fall down again, Bella?'
No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face.

Stephenie Meyer

#18. When Kirsten carried out a portable defibrillator the size of a breadbox, I very nearly went into cardiac arrest. Which, let's face it, would probably fall under the category of 'most ironic thing ever'.

Emmett Spain

#19. Life's struggle is a partnership. We fight and win together, or we truly lose the vision of our powerful spirituality and awesome oneness.

Maya Emmett

#20. 'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

Emmett Kelly

#21. The most common mistakes are showing people your product- don't show them your product, it's sort of like telling them bout a feature.

Emmett Shear

#22. There's no bigger gaming franchise on the console than 'Call of Duty', and we can't wait to see what the community can create with this new tool.

Emmett Shear

#23. Who are you and what have you done with my brother?

Stephenie Meyer

#24. You have this idea that you think is awesome. You want to have that broadest group you possibly can. You don't want to just talk to 1 type of person and learn that, you want to get familiar with the space.

Emmett Shear

#25. If there is peace in the heart, there will be beauty in the character. If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world." - Lao Tse

Emmett E. Miller

#26. I wish I was in de land ob cotton,
Ole times dar am not forgotten,
Look-a-way! Look-a-way! Look-a-way, Dixie Land!
* * * * *
Den I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie Land I'll take my stand
To lib and die in Dixie.

Dan Emmett

#27. A word of advice, my sweet Emmett - mourn the losses because they are many. But celebrate the victories because they are few.

Debbie Novotny

#28. By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.

Emmett Kelly

#29. [A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

Emmett Tyrrell

#30. It was in this atmosphere of war, heroism, and controversy that my wife's grandmother, Johanna Boel Sigurdardottir, met and fell in love with Samuel Emmett Hearn Jr. He was a gallant soldier, and she was a natural beauty.

Gudjon Bergmann

#31. That's actually one of the most disappointing things about doing user interviews and user feedback, which is why I think ... people don't do it. You're going to get negative news about your favorite pet feature most of the time.

Emmett Shear

#32. and sure enough, emmett's voice rose above the din. at some point, though, a mistake becomes a decision, whether you like it or not. in this, my husband and i were fundamentally different. in my opinion, a mistake required a getaway.

Amanda Eyre Ward

#33. It's one of the most validating things you can do for a product is go out there and get them to commit to pay you up front.

Emmett Shear

#34. Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.

Emmett F. Fields

#35. If you just talk to who's easy to talk to, you're not really getting the best data.

Emmett Shear

#36. You want to learn about what's already in their heads. You want to avoid putting things there.

Emmett Shear

#37. So it's still standing?" he managed to get out between his snickers. "I would've thought you two had knocked it to rubble by now. What were you doing last night? Discussing the national debt?" Emmett howled with laughter.

Stephenie Meyer

#38. One is more admired for claiming to do good than for proving to be right.

Emmett Tyrrell

#39. It's a little dense, don't you think, to antagonize the strongest vampire in the house?'
Emmett threw his head back and snorted. 'PLEASE!'
[ ... ]
I took a deep breath. 'Emmett, how do you feel about a little bet?'
He was on his feet at once. 'Awesome. Bring it.

Stephenie Meyer

#40. Given the huge number Xbox owners and how many of them love gaming spectatorship, it's a natural fit to bring the Twitch experience to the 360.

Emmett Shear

#41. I grinned at him, feeling more enthusiastic about my plan now that he was on board. Rosalie was a pain, but I would always owe her one for choosing Emmett; no one had a better brother than mine.

Stephenie Meyer

#42. Those who believe patriotism to be the last refuge of the scoundrel have underestimated compassion.

Emmett Tyrrell

#43. The question is, once you have this idea, is this enough? Is it something people would actually switch just to have?

Emmett Shear

#44. I thought I was in love, but it was only a head cold. (Humans)

Robert Emmett

#45. Did I never tell you Sassicaia makes me horny?

Steve Emmett

#46. Although millions of Americans purr with pastel delusions of Mohandas K. Gandhi, those who actually live in the scrawny crank's homeland struggle to throw off the painful aftermath of his quackery.

Emmett Tyrrell