March Quotes - Page 39

• I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change.

  Anne Campbell

  People, May, Things Change

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• The most certain way of ensuring victory is to march briskly and in good order against the enemy, always endeavouring to gain ground.

  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Veterans Day, War, Order

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• If a thousand old beliefs were ruined in our march to truth we must still march on.

  Stopford Brooke

  Truth, Belief, Ruined

  Stopford Augustus Brooke (1872). “Christ in modern life: sermons”, p.235

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• Farrakhan got everybody together for the Million Man March and everything. But Farrakhan don't like the Jews. Which is bugged. I get my hair cut on Dekalb Avenue. I never been in a barbershop and heard a bunch of brothers talking about Jews. Black people don't hate Jews. Black people hate white people! We don't got time to dice white people up into little groups. I hate everybody! I don't care if you just got here. "Hey, I'm Romanian." "You Romanian cracker!"

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Brother, Hate

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• I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of imagined struggle that gets projected into commodities like kente cloth for example on the one hand and images like the Million Man March.

  Angela Davis

  Struggle, Men, Thinking

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a breather in our interminable march under the murderous, scorching heat of the superfluous.

  Kiki Dimoula

  Would Be, Heat, Shady

  Source: blog.yupnet.org

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• Turkey, with its political intolerance, as I have described it, is prepared to march forward, to break with its taboo about the Armenians, and is making great strides with respect to human rights and freedom of speech so that it can join the European Union. This alone shows how powerful the European idea is.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Powerful, Rights, Turkeys

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• All year there have been these cover stories that the women's movement is dead and about the death of feminism and the post-feminist generation of young women who don't identify with feminism - and then we have the biggest march ever of women in Washington. More people than had ever marched for anything - not only more women, but more people.

  Betty Friedan

  Years, People, Feminist

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Progress, Arizona, Care

  "Case Closed". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.motherjones.com. March 16, 2009.

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• There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Song, Party, Eight

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• Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Destiny, Events, Demand

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• When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

  John Malkovich

  Thinking, Facts, Periods

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• I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

  Anne Lamott

  Hate, Virginia, San Francisco

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• I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.

  Anne Lamott

  Stars, Spring, Moon

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.145, Penguin

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• The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will neither see nor follow him.

  Georg Brandes

  Leadership, Twenties, Pace

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• It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Running, Yankees, Locks

  FaceBook post by Susan Elizabeth Phillips from Jan 26, 2013

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• More and more, there were no revelations, but simply the uncovering of truths long known but dimly remembered. Everything had been written long ago. There was nothing truly new in the world, but only the slow, circular march of time that revealed the old things once again.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Long Ago, Old Things, World

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• I'm touched, Rixon. A bomb. How elaborate. Why didn't you keep things simple and just march inside my bedroom one night and put a bullet between my eyes?" Nora, Crescendo

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Simple, Night

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Leadership, Pride, Dark

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3409, Delphi Classics

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• Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Civilization, Mind, Progress

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• I think March and fall are natural seasons for me to feel invigorated.

  Jen Kirkman

  Fall, Thinking, Natural

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

  Joni Mitchell

  Vocabulary, White, Spirit

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• I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will look into the powers the police already have to force the removal of face coverings and balaclavas.

  Theresa May

  Police, Covering, Looks

  "Police may be given new powers after cuts protest, says home secretary". www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2011.

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• Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.

  Duke of Wellington

  Twenties, Four, Hours

  Said at the Duchess of Richmond's ball on June 15, 1815. "Camps, Quarters and Casual Places" by Archibald Forbes, www.gutenberg.org. 1896.

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• [Larry Kramer] even wrote this angry letter to the president of Yale, and in it he said what he said to us, that he was so disappointed in his straight friends because of AIDS and everything. He wrote the letter around March. And in it he wrote, "I usually go to the Trillins for Christmas, but I just couldn't do it this year."

  Kevin Sessums

  Yale, Years, President

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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