Unita Quotes & Sayings

The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people. — Unita Blackwell

I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within. — William Jackson

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote. — Unita Blackwell

Repetition is the mother of education. — Jean Paul

That is why I come forward tonight without any political label, without any bias, but just simply as an Englishman to say to you: a crime is being committed against civilization. — John Amery

No one believed me when I said it was possible to put fabric in resin. — Reem Acra

As for the scenes we shared in the Piazza Unita that day in 1897, I can hear the music still, but all the rest is phantom. The last passenger liner sailed long ago. The schooners, steamboats and barges have disappeared. No tram has crossed the piazza for years. The Caffe Flora changed its name to Nazionale when the opportunity arose, and is now defunct. The Governor's Palace is now only the Palace of the Prefect and the Lloyd Austriaco headquarters, having metamorphosed into Lloyd Triestino when the Austrians left, are now government offices: wistfully the marble tritons blow their their horns, regretfully Neptune and Mercury linger upon their entablatures. Those silken and epauletted passengers, with all they represented, have vanished from the face of Europe, and I am left all alone listening to the band. — Jan Morris

We can choose a leader who will fight every day to make America great again. — Mike Pence

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up. — Deval Patrick

If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight. — Bill Nye

The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight. — Isabella Bird

Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on. — Unita Blackwell

This is what I know about courage: You don't have to think about courage to have it. You don't have to feel courageous to be courageous. You don't sit down and say you're going to be courageous. At the moment of action, you don't see it as a courageous act. Courage is the most hidden thing from your eye or mind until after it's done. There's some inner something that tells you what's right. You know you have to do it to survive as a human being. You have no choice. — Unita Blackwell

I am the president of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me those votes! — Abraham Lincoln

Engrave this Quote The ultimate inspiration is the deadline. — Nolan Bushnell

Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women's voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement - the examples go on and on of 'little people' getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act. — Unita Blackwell

If I were to say, "this isn't a sacrifice" at this moment, it would reek of a lie...
... But I hope I'll be able to really say that in a few years' time. — Yumi Unita

To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going. — Unita Blackwell

There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big. — Unita Blackwell

The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first. — Unita Blackwell

Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being? — Unita Blackwell

Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people to the truth. They pass along information and ideas that many others do not know, and they cause them to ask questions, to challenge their own long-held beliefs ... Movements are the way ordinary people get more freedom and justice. Movements are how we keep a check on power and those who abuse it. — Unita Blackwell

Prior to providing their freedom UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi, apparently sensing a change in the tide, said that the two pilots were released, 'to show Cuba that we are also men, revolutionaries and human. — Peter Polack