Medgar Evers Quotes

First it was the whites, and then their Negro message bearers. And the word was always the same: 'Tell your sons to take their names off the books. Don't show up at the courthouse voting day.'

Medgar Evers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 2, 1925 - June 12, 1963

Topics

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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

John Milton

OvercomeForceHalfWhoHisFoe

Guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that's exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.

John Krasinski

FightInsecurityThinkYouFall

I try to fix things between the Asian community and the English community. There are always going to be racial things there, not getting on with each other and stuff. I have tried to break that barrier.

Amir Khan

CommunityTryFixRacialAsian

Freedom is about a way of thinking. Freedom is about understanding that you can do anything that you want and freedom is about being able to take information and education and make it relevant to your own growth every single day. Freedom is not staying in the box. Freedom is not doing what other people want you to do.

Stedman Graham

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Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.

Sibel Kekilli

LifeCharacterTimeStartStoryTry

I feel like I was born in the wrong time.

Tony Shalhoub

TimeFeelBornWrongI Feel Like

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Rob Zombie

PeopleEndViewYouPoint Of View

I would prefer myself to own all of my brand, where everything I am responsible for myself.

Roustam Tariko

MyselfI AmBrandResponsibleOwn

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

Michael Shannon

ThinkElephantActorOutPointRoom

The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place.

Johnny Weir

CommunityMyselfYourselfMeYou

The secret is that I am Italian.

Dennis Christopher

I AmSecretItalianAm

One of the things I say is, 'You want to know what it's like to be a baby? It's like being in love for the first time in Paris after four double espressos.' And boy, you are alive and conscious.

Alison Gopnik

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