Quotes About Freedom Riders

#1. The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

Constance Baker Motley

#2. The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

William, Saroyan

#3. I've always wanted not to give a fuck. While crying helplessly into my pillow for no good reason, I would often fantasize that maybe someday I could be one of those stoic badasses whose emotions are mostly comprised of rock music and not being afraid of things.

Allie Brosh

#4. It had swept him, he said, "into a dream from which I did not recover for months.

Erik Larson

#5. As an old, old man, Trout would be asked by Dr. Thor Lembrig, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, if he feared the future. He would give this reply: 'Mr. Secretary-General, it is the past which scares the bejesus out of me.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. I always feel most alive when everything else is dying all around me

Simon R. Green

#7. Cheer up,' said the captain's son. 'Life is long, and we are young.

Gustave Flaubert

#8. Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was broken.

Saul Bellow

#9. Something went wrong a few years ago and I knew it was a bad thing but I didn't know it was bad for me. I thought it just happened and then I was going to get over it. But things keep falling down inside me. I'm sick with it. I keep doing things.

Stephen King

#10. No man will survive who genuinely opposes you or any other crowd and prevents the occurrence of many unjust and illegal happenings in the city. A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time

Plato

#11. The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

#12. I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.' Immediately, when I was 10, I started photographing nature. I built a darkroom. My first really good darkroom, not just down in the cellar, was when I was 14.

Bill Atkinson

#13. All gardens rain will fall. But the heart and the love it's capable of will give us shelter from even the worst storms.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he'll become.

Don DeLillo

#15. Someone created the box score, and he should be shot.

Daryl Morey