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Alphonso Jackson Quotes

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

Alphonso Jackson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: american
Birth: September 9, 1945

Topics

People You Rise Understand Class

A typical Ponzi scheme involves taking money from investors, then paying them off with money taken from new investors, rather than paying them from actual earnings.

Money New Off Rather Than Taken

It's traumatic to meditate on the availability of information through the Internet, or the way we perceive the world as a result. People don't experience things totally or viscerally anymore. It's all through representation, be it a record on YouTube or a post on a blog.

Experience People World Internet Way

All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.

Fear Happiness Brain Writing Sadness

Acting has been my first passion, and turning a producer was a natural progression.

Riteish Deshmukh

Passion Acting First Producer Been

Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.

Plants Building Think Shells Poison

We use the word 'urban' to mean black or Latino, but that's not what the word means. It actually means 'from the city.' I'm not from the city. I'm from the suburbs of Connecticut. I grew up with mostly all white people.

Courtney A. Kemp

People City Black White Mean Latino

The monarchy is thousands of years old and has experienced many things like 'The Crown' in the past. They're always changing and evolving; that's the thing. They have to.

Past Crown Old Always Years Things

If I helped you through something or if I helped you find love or if I helped you find a way through heartbreak or whatever it is, then my job is done, and that's what I want to leave behind in this world.

Love Job World You Find Done

Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust.

Me Moon Seize Dust Up Star

I threw away the whole of my working history, my photograph albums, diaries and stage clothes. Shoving big, ugly discs on walls is a bit like rubbing people's faces in it, saying 'I am considerably richer than you.' It is completely unnecessary.

History Walls I Am Ugly People You

When men and women, boys and girls, are denied the right to education, the right to own land, the access to basic services like healthcare and clean water, a fair price for the crops they grow, a fair wage for the work they do, or the right to be part of making decisions that affect them, the result is poverty.

Winnie Byanyima

Work Education Women Water Men Grow

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.

William H. Wharton

History Government Suffering Turn

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