Quotes About June 16

#1. So on June 16, 1970, history was made in Newark. Ken Gibson became the first black mayor of a major Northeastern city.

Junius Williams

#2. In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.
(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech, June 16, 1918)

Eugene V. Debs

#3. June 16, 1971, mama gave birth to a Hell rasing heavenly son.

Tupac Shakur

#4. Orba (feminine), the Latin word for orphaned, parentless, childless, widowed. There was a time when I believed there was loss that could not be defined, that language had not caught up to death's enormity. But it has. Orbus, orba, orbum, orbi, orbae, orborum, orbo, orbis...

Jacqueline Woodson

#5. Drag threatens people because it exposes and mocks identity. Because most people believe that they are what it says they are on their driver's license. But the truth is we are all born naked, and the rest is drag.

RuPaul

#6. Government has no right to hurt a hair on the head of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

{Letter to his son and future president, John Quincy Adams, 16 June 1816}

John Adams

#7. When you play, never mind who listens to you.

Robert Schumann

#8. There are no styles of karate-do, just varying interpretations of its principles.

Kenwa Mabuni

#9. My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.

Norman Wisdom

#10. [America] will stand steadfast with Israel in pursuit of security and a lasting peace.

Barack Obama

#11. Shall we take these candles with us and sit for a while on the piazza, or do you want to go to bed and nurse that tooth?"

Nurse that tooth.

Vladimir Nabokov

#12. EPUB Edition JUNE 2015 ISBN 9780062363251 Version 060815 15 16 17 18 19 OV/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Paul Tremblay

#13. There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.

Marissa Mayer

#14. Fishing for compliments - really? Your hotness score just dropped a point.

Genna Rulon

#15. I was born on June 3rd, 1929, in Graenichen in the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, where I went to the public schools until the age of 16.

Werner Arber

#16. The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.

Bobby Knight

#17. In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

Anthony Zinni

#18. Before we can go on making workers, we must first make people.

Martin Haberman