Top 19 Ruffin Quotes
#1. At Al Jazeera, the first story I did was to sit down with a former Haitian dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, and grill him about crimes against humanity. Al Jazeera is giving me the opportunity to tell important stories and stories that I want to tell.
Soledad O'Brien
#2. All over America there is to be found a large and growing class of earnest, intelligent, progressive colored women ... many of them warped and cramped for lack of opportunity, not only to do more but to be more.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
#3. If you're praying, you're not worrying, and if you're worrying, you're not praying!
Ruffin McNeill
#4. We need to feel the cheer and inspiration of meeting each other, we need to gain the courage and fresh life that comes from the mingling of congenial souls, of those working for the same ends.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
#5. [W]e need to talk over not only those things which are of vital importance to us as women, but also the things that are of especial interest to us as colored women.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
#7. Not only does overparenting hurt our children; it harms us, too. Parents today are scared, not to mention exhausted, anxious, and depressed.
Julie Lythcott-Haims
#8. We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it.
David Ruffin
#10. I never knew that I'd still be doing this so many years later.
David Ruffin
#11. It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity.
Edmund Ruffin
#12. You may have caught my heart before but not my name. Lynch Katlan.
Brit Malorie
#14. Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music.
David Ruffin
#15. Contemporary poets got so obscure that poetry kind of fell out of favor,
Paul Ruffin
#16. Words make known. But we live in the unknown.
Marty Rubin
#17. Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
#18. It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
Edith Beale
#19. We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
