Sit Ins Quotes

#1. Has he paid his dues? Is he black enough? ... John Lewis and I were out there marching and organizing sit-ins back in the '60s so that his children and my children would not have to do it ... We would have been failures if had to do the same things we did.

Jim Clyburn

#2. I was in sit-ins to desegregate restaurants and movie houses in the '60s.

Joe Biden

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

Constance Baker Motley

#4. History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.

Hugh Evans

#5. The gun was in Mrs. Jones's left hand. She put her right hand behind her, between my legs, then held on to my cock like it was a leash.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#6. I like it when very little children think for themselves, because they do not have access to car keys or credit cards or crack pipes, but they have some really funny lines.

Roseanne Barr

#7. I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#8. It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#9. This is about saving children's lives. It is not about agencies and services protecting themselves.

Rosie Batty

#10. Everybody needs dreams to survive. But dreams need dreamers, and ever since you dared to wake up, I wasn't able to fall asleep again.

Katja Michael

#11. Do I look like the kind of person who wastes time turning goats into pin cushions?

L.J.Smith

#12. We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

Anton Chekhov

#13. Ins't that the point? It's neither your right, nor your privilege, to sit in judgement of anyone. Certainly not a people about whom you know so little.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#14. The war is always going badly.

Catherynne M Valente

#15. I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

Mike Figgis