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Francis John McConnell Quotes

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

Francis John McConnell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 18, 1871 - August 18, 1953

Topics

Patriotism Need Us Virtues Who Type

With dancing, I think the reason it's worked for me, and I love it so much, is because I've trained my entire life. Once you train, you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So I think, as I grow, I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.

Life Love Learning Confidence Me

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.

Father Mother Time Internment Old

Everybody has problems. Everyone has issues.

Problems Everyone Everybody Issues

I can see how a relationship with a writer would be an easy thing.

Relationship Easy I Can See Would

When I read in newspapers that farmers are dying because of water shortage, I felt deeply pained that we have best of everything, yet we complain so much, whereas there are people who do not even have access to basic necessities of life.

Life Water Best People Farmers

Jazz, and the history of jazz, is the history of America.

Ron Cephas Jones

History America Jazz The History Of

Courts are supposed to interpret laws to avoid 'absurd results' and to avoid constitutional problems - such as infringing on the free speech rights of Americans.

Free Problems Speech Results Rights

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.

Mistakes Free Early Making Mistakes

Chemotherapy can be a long, tough haul - for me, it went on for six months - and the best doctors and nurses become, if only for that period of time, as essential in your life as friends or spouses.

Life Time Best Me Tough Friends

I can't criticize an athlete if they say they're injured.

Say Athlete They Say Criticize

I still am very street - I just have nicer clothes. I'm not ashamed of that.

Clothes Street Ashamed Just Still

When I say 'publishing is the new literacy,' I don't mean there's no role for curation, for improving material, for editing material, for fact-checking material. I mean literally, the act of putting something out in public used to be reserved in the same way.

New Say Editing Way Mean Out

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