Reparations For African Quotes

#1. In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

Edmund Burke

#2. When she'd read, her voice wrapped around my head and my heart, and it softened and lightened everything up. It put a pain in my hear that felt good.

Katherine Hannigan

#3. I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.

Wilfred Grenfell

#4. ...but the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time.

Amor Towles

#5. What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#6. A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies.

Robert Ardrey

#7. Come back to the heartbeat, the pulse, the rhythm we all walk to, regardless of nation or color. Come back to the breath - inhale, take the world deep into your lungs; exhale, give yourself back fully. This is what the body says: release the peace that lives within your skin.

Gayle Brandeis

#8. True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. All this happiness on display is suspect ... If they think - and they could be right - that continued torture and summary executions, ethnic cleansing and occasional genocide are preferable to an invasion, they should be sombre in their view.

Ian McEwan

#10. Grandeur and sublimity, not softness, are the features of Estes Park. The glades which begin so softly are soon lost in the dark primaeval forests, with their peaks of rosy granite and their stretches of granite blocks piled and poised by nature in some mood of fury.

Isabella Bird

#11. Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Cassandra Wilson

#12. Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.

Brian Tracy

#13. All social animals, including people, live under constant pressure from two competing interests: protecting themselves from others and aligning themselves with others. When these two interests are balanced, the result is dynamic social homeostasis.

Mystery

#14. Fortunately, in President Obama, the child of an African and an American, we finally have a leader who is uniquely positioned to bridge the great reparations divide.

Henry Louis Gates

#15. Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.

Thomas Carlyle

#16. Fix myself a hot chocolate because it is a gateway drug to reading.

Helen Ellis