Folks Quotes - Page 31

• If you're not sure how you feel about same-sex marriage, go and meet some of the families and see what they're looking for. Once you take it out of the caricature of what gay people are and what gay marriage is, and put it in the reality of family and what these folks are fighting for, it's really amazing.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Sex, Gay, Fighting

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• The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk

  Nelson Mandela

  Ordinary, Enjoy, Handcrafted

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.159, Pan Macmillan

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• It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.

  Shane Claiborne

  Beautiful, Dream, Struggle

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.85, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there!

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Nature, Stars, Fire

  'The Starlight Night' (written 1877)

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• The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

  George Carlin

  Motivation, People, Lazy

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• Without God, I don't see how folks cope.

  Reba McEntire

  Religion, Without God

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• I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Crazy, Long, Nine

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• We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this reality and long for the safety and familiarity of sameness, inclusive ways of knowing and living offer us the only true way to emancipate ourselves from the divisions that limit our minds and imaginations.

  Bell Hooks

  Reality, Thinking, Knowing

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• Folks are like plants; we all lean towards the light.

  Kris Carr

  Light, Plant

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• Most of the problems with the bodies and minds of the folks occupying the current culture involve an unwillingness to do anything hard, or anything that they'd rather not do. I applaud your resolve, and I welcome you to the community of people who have decided that EASY will no longer suffice.

  Mark Rippetoe

  People, Community, Mind

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• Debt is so ingrained into our culture that most Americans can't even envision a car without a payment ... a house without a mortgage ... a student without a loan ... and credit without a card. We've been sold debt with such repetition and with such fervor that most folks can't conceive of what it would be like to have NO payments.

  Dave Ramsey

  Car, House, Would Be

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• What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them?

  Martin Luther

  Care, Young, Teach

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• A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be
  who's hungry and where their mouth is or
  who's out of work and where the job is or
  who's broke and where the money is or
  who's carrying a gun and where the peace is.

  Woody Guthrie

  Song, Jobs, Gun

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• Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

  Mark Twain

  Mean, Sleep, Done

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people

  Woody Guthrie

  Jobs, People, Comforting

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• I would like to see every single soldier on every single side, just take off your helmet, unbuckle your kit, lay down your rifle, and set down at the side of some shady lane, and say, nope, I aint a gonna kill nobody. Plenty of rich folks wants to fight. Give them the guns.

  Woody Guthrie

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Woody Guthrie (1975). “Woody Sez”

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• I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

  M. F. Husain

  Moving, Paint, Painter

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• Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.

  Johnny Ramone

  Hippie, Thinking, Rocks

  FaceBook post by Johnny Ramone from Feb 25, 2015

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• I would never be so arrogant to think that someone should model their life after me. But the idea of possibility the idea that I get to live my dreams out in public, hopefully will show to other folks that it's possible. So I prefer the term 'possibility model' to 'role model.'

  Laverne Cox

  Dream, Thinking, Ideas

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• Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever been committed on American soil. We bear witness that the worst crime, the worst tragedy, that has ever taken place on American soil is not September 11th. It's not the twin towers. It's the holocaust that black folks been dealing with for 400 years.

  Malik Zulu Shabazz

  Lying, Taken, Night

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• Be serious. Folk songs are serious. That's what Pete Seeger told me. 'Arlo, I only wanna tell you one thing. Folk songs are serious.' And I said, 'Right.'

  Arlo Guthrie

  Song, Serious, Said

  Comment during the track "The Story of Reuben Clamzo" on the album "One Night", 1978.

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• I intend to protect a free and open internet, extend its reach to every classroom, and every community, and help folks build the fastest networks, so that the next generation of digital innovators and entrepreneurs have the platform to keep reshaping our world.

  Barack Obama

  Our World, Entrepreneur, Community

  Sixth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2015

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• But something stirred across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks were willing to march across a bridge. And so they [my parents] got together, Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home when I come to Selma, Alabama.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Home, Bridges

  Barack Obama's speech in Selma, Alabama, as reported in CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer", edition.cnn.com. March 4, 2007.

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• It’s not that I want to punish your success. I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success, too. My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Thinking, Want

  "Obama Fires a ‘Robin Hood’ Warning Shot". nypost.com. October 15, 2008.

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• Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values.

  Barack Obama

  Kind, American Values, Core

  "Transcript of President Barack Obama with Univision". Interview with Eddie "Piolin" Sotelo, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 25, 2010.

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