Cynthia McKinney Quotes

Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.

Cynthia McKinney

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I don't want to play second leads or third leads in a film. I started working at 17. I still have a long way to go.

Jiah Khan

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We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

John Lennon

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I travel all the time, but when I come back to the South, I see such progress. In a real sense, a great deal of the South has been redeemed. People feel freer, more complete, more whole, because of what happened in the movement.

John Lewis

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It turns out that every person alive today can trace his or her ancestry back to Africa. Everyone's DNA tells a story of a journey from an African homeland to wherever you live.

Spencer Wells

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I never had an easy time making friends in the past, for many reasons. I didn't go into therapy for nothing.

Rita Moreno

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I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

Rosa Parks

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When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany.

Juan Manuel Fangio

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If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me.' and 'Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

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If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.

Suzanne Collins

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Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.

Sherwood Anderson

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I hate losing.

Serena Williams

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I blew about pounds 70,000 on stupid things - a very expensive car which got written off, and nightclubs. I'd always pick up the bill. It's very easy to spend a lot of money in a short space of time, going out.

Mark Lester

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