Septima Poinsette Quotes & Sayings

What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading the fight for justice and better race relations in these crucial days — Septima Poinsette Clark

I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm. — Septima Poinsette Clark

There are life-threatening issues related to diabetes. — Stephen Wallem

One of the great responsibilities that I have is to manage my assets wisely, so that they create value. — Alice Walton

It takes great courage when you are suffering to see beyond your suffering to the clear relations between things, to the laws that cause and govern your suffering; it takes great courage to be ruthless with one's griefs. — Andre Harvey

The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together. — Septima Poinsette Clark

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him. — S.E. Hinton

The Alice books belong to a branch of literature that speaks deeply and clearly to the human psyche--stories of the journey. — Stephanie Lovett Stoffel

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth. — Matthew Henry

I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it. — Septima Poinsette Clark

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal. — Seneca The Younger

I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion, keep you from eating, which I liked to do. — Septima Poinsette Clark

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step. — Denis Diderot

A Corsai, a Malchai, and a Sunai walk into a bar -
Everyone groaned, including August. — Victoria Schwab

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift. — Septima Poinsette Clark

My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling. — Septima Poinsette Clark

Roar's mouth pulled into a smile - a beautiful smile she hadn't seen in weeks.
"Beautiful, huh?"
She drew her hand away, giving him a small push on the shoulder. "Don't act surprised."
"I'm not. Always nice to be reminded, though. — Veronica Rossi

The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe. — Septima Poinsette Clark

We have a conservative government that only thinks in terms of efficiency. They are spending a lot of money on military expenses and less and less on culture. My position is that culture can actually be economically viable. When I make a film, the film costs $3 million. Now, in Quebec, it grossed $3.5 million, which is a small film. It's not a comedy. There are no stars in it. And, it still grosses $3.5 million. That's just in Quebec. — Philippe Falardeau

Dad used to tell me about the guys at the VFW who could feel their amputated limbs. I feel like one of those guys-wiggling my weak tortured, pathetic self from only a month ago even though I've amputated him.
It's a little like being two people at once. One minute I feel like the old Lucky who had nothing, and the next minute I realize I have everything I could possibly need.
While I'm in the driveway, I hear the neighborhood kids playing. Normal kids doing normal things. They probably don't know that as of today more than 1,700 servicemen have still not been accounted for. They probably don't know that about 8,000 are still missing from Korea, or that approximately 74,000 never surfaced after World War II. They don't know that amputees sometimes try to wiggle limbs they lost.
I don't envy them. They have a lot to learn. — A.S. King