Henry Hampton Quotes

Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.

Henry Hampton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 19, 1940 - November 22, 1998

Topics

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The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball.

Jim Evans

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I used to get criticized for putting food in novels.

Jim Harrison

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In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

Jim Mattis

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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

Andrew Young

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I don't have a temper. There's no fist through the walls.

John Ritter

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When I became commander of the Joint Special Operations Task Force, I was leading thousands of individuals, from Special Forces to the broader interagency effort. I quickly realized that while we had the most best and most effective operators and small teams in the world, we were unable to scale.

Stanley A. McChrystal

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I knew from reading about Sarah Grimke that she'd been given a handmaid to be her personal slave and that her name was Hetty. The only other fact I knew about her was that Sarah taught her to read: They conspired in a very subversive way, by locking the door and screening the keyhole.

Sue Monk Kidd

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There's something very special about playing for Liverpool.

Mohamed Salah

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What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.

Louis D. Brandeis

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I had always been interested in mythology. I suppose my brief stay in Wales during World War II influenced my writing, too. It was an amazing country. It has marvelous castles and scenery.

Lloyd Alexander

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My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.

Dominick Dunne

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There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

Doris Lessing

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