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• It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smart-ass.

  Douglas Adams

  Smart, Science, Realization

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.57, Pan Macmillan

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• No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

  H. L. Mencken

  Walking Sticks, Revolution, Generations

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• Black folks never bungie jump. That's too much like lynching for us. I'm gonna let you tie a rope around me and push me off a bridge? You must be out your damn mind.

  D. L. Hughley

  Bridges, Ties, Black

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• The uncomfortable truth is that we all enjoyed the party far too much to query where all the booze was coming from. Now we seem intent on lynching the barman for letting us get drunk and attacking the Government for letting us get a hangover.

  Sean O'Grady

  Party, Hangover, Government

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• I said, "Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?'" I can't take back that I'm against the poll tax, that I'm against lynching, that I'm for peace.

  Studs Terkel

  Cancer, Communist, Polls

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• Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that’s a fact.

  E.W. Jackson

  Ideas, Ku Klux Klan, Black

  "Thies: Ew, Virginia! E.W. Jackson" by Chuck Thies, www.nbcwashington.com. June 26, 2013.

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• You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame and self-pity. There is a better way to live.

  Og Mandino

  Grief, Ignorance, Self

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.2, Bantam

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• We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Grateful, Choices

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• Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice.

  Zig Ziglar

  Happiness, Success, Encouragement

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.30, Pelican Publishing

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• America don't have no future! America's going to be destroyed! Allah's going to divinely chastise America! Violence, crimes, earthquakes - there's gonna be all kinds of trouble. America's going to pay for all its lynchings and killings of slaves and what it's done to black people.

  Muhammad Ali

  Earthquakes, America, People

  "This is the Legend of Muhammad Ali, the Greatest Fighter That Ever Will Be". Interview, www.playboy.com. June 3, 2016.

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• All of you are aware of the tragic history of racism in America, but for a very long time, African-Americans and their white allies came together and they struggled and they stood up for justice and they stood up to lynching and they stood up to segregation and the stood up to a nation where African-Americans couldn't even vote in America.

  Bernie Sanders

  White, America, Justice

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• I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

  George Allen

  Apology, Heartfelt, United States

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• And weren't, when you got right down to it, particularly evil. Human beings mostly aren't. They just get carried away by new ideas, like dressing up in jackboots and shooting people, or dressing up in white sheets and lynching people, or dressing up in tie-dye jeans and and playing guitar at people. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Guitar, Jeans

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• Make a way, find a way or get out of the way.

  Ted Turner

  Choices, Way

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• Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world.

  Betty Smith

  Children, War, Heart

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• You can create whatever you want. You just have to know what you want and take the opportunities as they come your way. We are who we choose to be.

  Will Smith

  Opportunity, Choices, Want

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• If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.

  Sean Covey

  Choices, Flow, Unhappiness

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

  Josh Billings

  Life, Positive, Inspiration

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• You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Positive, Future

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.51, Delta

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