Mfume Kweisi Quotes & Sayings

You wander through this city, and wonder if anything you do will make up for the horror that keeps the world turning. To live, you rip your own heart from your chest and hide it in a box somewhere, along with everything you ever learned about justice, compassion, mercy. You throw yourself into games to mark the time. And if you yearn for something different: what would you change? Would you bring back the blood, the dying cries, the sucking chest wounds? The constant war? So we're caught between two poles of hypocrisy. We sacrifice our right to think of ourselves as good people, our right to think our life is good, our city is just. And so we and our city both survive. — Max Gladstone

I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. I don't really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety. — Emma Stone

See you on the other side. Excelsior. — Maggie Stiefvater

Too often people enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought, never taking a principled stand. True justice will never come until those who are not injured are just as indignant as those who are — Kweisi Mfume

The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket. — Nicole McKay

If you stay in Beverly Hills too long, you become a Mercedes. — Robert Redford

Are you living your parents' dream...or your own? — Gena Showalter

Hate radio, hate speech, hate groups, hate crimes really don't fit in, in the America that we know today. — Kweisi Mfume

The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees. — Brad Faxon

Never again will NAACP find itself near financial ruin. — Kweisi Mfume

We do not have to be victims of circumstance. — Kweisi Mfume

Loving God means rejoicing in God, being eager to think of and pray to God. It means being glad to be in God's presence and to be with God alone. It means not grieving God, but rejoicing in God simply because it is God who is involved, and because we are permitted to know and have God, and to speak with and live with God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Where there is money there is no art. — William Blake

Even if they're not reaching out to us, we're going to reach out to them anyway and involve them in a meaningful way. Because if we don't, we will fail to learn the lesson of a generation before us, that reached out for us and never let us go. — Kweisi Mfume

The people I admire most are those doing outstanding things for the poorest children, such as Michael Wilshaw at Mossbourne academy, Dan Moynihan and all those at the Harris academies, and those at chains such as Ark and the Haberdashers, who are driving up standards in the poorest areas. — Michael Gove

I tried to cheer her up, and apparently succeeded in some degree, before the walk was over; but in the very act my conscience reproved me, knowing, as I did, that, sooner or later, the tie must be broken, and this was only nourishing false hopes and putting off the evil day. — Anne Bronte

The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria. — Frank Herbert

If you want someone badly enough, you'll do anything to have them. — Paula Hawkins

Those who aren't caught up into this bigotry, this hatred, those who respect us when they see us. Then you have an obligation also, the good ones. To make sure you say to the others, that this blue wall of silence must come down and that everybody must be treated equally. — Kweisi Mfume

Who wants to see 3 aging old racists on stage, anyway? — Robert Plant