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Tim Wise Quotes

Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in a modified form, then the system must still be attacked until that injustice is eradicated.

Tim Wise

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 4, 1968

Topics

Progress Injustice Nothing Oppression

I grew up looking at National Geographic. I always wondered who was taking the photos and how.

Jimmy Chin

Looking Always Up Who How Taking

It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can't continue in perpetuity these programs.

Jim Talent

Government Done Sometimes Reason

I was quite nerdy at school. I skipped a year and won a scholarship in chemistry.

Jerry Hall

School Year Scholarship Chemistry

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

John Leguizamo

Marriage Happiness Time Joy Thought

I was willing to walk away from my dream job, let's leave it at that. In order for me to do that, I had to be true to my convictions and what makes you a human being.

Mauro Ranallo

Walk Job Me You Be True Dream

Command that no one be received, or kept to be of your household indoors or without, if one has not reasonable belief of them that they are faithful, discreet, and painstaking in the office for which they are received, and withal honest and of good manners.

Robert Grosseteste

Good Manners Belief Office Faithful

You spend a lot of time studying, and you want to do something with that. Something that's tangible, like creating a show, writing a screenplay, making a difference.

Sophie Hunter

Time Writing You Creating Want Show

Even if you were a general in 1945, if you split the revolutionary national unity today, if you are an enemy of the main pillars of the revolution today, then you have become a force of reaction!

Sukarno

Today Unity Revolution You Enemy

Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.

Steven Johnson

Knowledge Electrical Telephone Radio

Someone asked me who I would be if I were a character in the 'Wizard of Oz.' I would be the curtain. I would be the one who saw both sides that nobody noticed, that was pretty and there to be used and discarded when they were done.

Rose McGowan

Character Me Someone Nobody Done

I'm not in the type of work where you should rest.

Christian Louboutin

Work Rest You Where Should Type

I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.

Brad D. Smith

Age Time School Black Self-Awareness