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Jim Brown Quotes

I'd like to make one thing very clear: Muhammad Ali loved people, and he had white friend as well as black friends - and the only thing that he hated was discrimination and racism.

Jim Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: February 17, 1936

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Andy Taylor

Down Play New Old Up Well

The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.

Amiri Baraka

Black America Artist Role Aid Knows

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

Stanley Fish

Work People Political You Say See

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it.

Robert Dallek

Experience Fight War Interesting Our

If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

Michael Schenker

Business People Sweet You Will Talk

I honestly didn't know that I wanted to act until I was probably 12.

Miranda Rae Mayo

Know Act Wanted Honestly Until

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity Man Mind Brave Pressure

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Josh Billings

Age Old Age Youth Run Difficulties

If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.

Joseph Rykwert

You Look Street 1920s Marble Off

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

Wole Soyinka

Violence Kind Attraction Magnetic

The American Republican Party is the last political bastion of the fossil fuel industry - now so in tow to the fossil fuel industry that it cannot face up to the realities of carbon pollution and climate change.

Sheldon Whitehouse

Change Face American Political Party