Understanding Quotes - Page 19

• I have a pretty good understanding of animals.

  Eric Stonestreet

  Animal, Good Understanding

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• I believe that if we could see the chapters that are missing from the book [The Autobiography of Malcolm X], we would gain an understanding as to why perhaps - perhaps - the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the New York Police Department and others in law enforcement greatly feared what Malcolm X was about, because he was trying to build a broad - an unprecedented black coalition across the lines of black nationalism and integration. And in way, it presages 30 years ahead of time, the Million Man March.

  Manning Marable

  New York, Book, Believe

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• Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were - that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle.

  Manning Marable

  Struggle, Vision, Broads

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• Malcolm X had a clear vision and an understanding that we were - that he was a part of a broad freedom struggle. As his vision became more internationalist and pan-African, as he began, especially in 1964, after seeing the example of anti-colonial revolutions abroad and began to articulate and incorporate a socialist analysis economically into his program, he clearly became a threat to the US state.

  Manning Marable

  Struggle, Vision, Revolution

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• If the various groups in America had been less selfish and had permitted different representatives from the groups to travel into foreign countries, and broaden their own scope, and come back and educate the movements they represented, not only would this have made the groups to which they belonged more enlightened and more worldly in the international sense, but it also would have given the independent African states abroad a better understanding of the groups in the United States, and what they stand for, what they represent.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Selfish, Independent

  Source: www.panafricanperspective.com

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• There's the unique case of Ronald Reagan, who cited [founders] some 850 times, and in a way that was absolutely fundamental to understanding Reagan's vision for America.

  Paul Kengor

  Unique, America, Vision

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• The American founding is not just about a group of people, a group of men. It is about an ideal: Both a vision and understanding of the very essence of democracy, constitutional government, a representative republic, and the remarkably powerful concept of being endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights.

  Paul Kengor

  Powerful, Men, Rights

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• It is quite sad, to me, that that ideal, that vision and understanding [of American founding ], doesn't seem to be a part of the current political season.

  Paul Kengor

  Political, Vision, Currents

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• I had met Michael Stipe, and he was such a kind person, and extremely understanding, so I asked him if he knew a photographer who would come to Detroit, where I lived, who would be child friendly and who would respect my home. Michael suggested Steven [ Sebring]. One day a knock came at my door, and when I opened it, there was Steven. He's been like a brother ever since.

  Patti Smith

  Brother, Children, Home

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• My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.

  Tara Brach

  Dying, Needs, World

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If you're a realist, you know that people have different roles to play in politics, economics, and this is an important role, but I do think that there has to be an understanding of how what happens here on Wall Street has such broad consequences not just for the domestic but the global economy, so more thought has to be given to the process and transactions and regulations so that we don't kill or maim what works, but we concentrate on the most effective way of moving forward with the brainpower and the financial power that exists here.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I don't know about [Rex] Tillerson, but I do know that John Bolton doesn't get it. He still believes in regime change. He's still a big cheerleader for the Iraq war. He's promoted a nuclear attack by Israel on Iran. He wants to do regime change in Iran. So, I think John Bolton is so far out of it and has such a naive understanding of the world. If he were to be the assistant or the undersecretary for Tillerson, I'm an out automatic no on Bolton.

  Rand Paul

  War, Believe, Thinking

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• Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.

  Denzel Washington

  Decision, Stories, Might

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• I think there's a sort of, you know, very thin way of reading this that says, well, Barack Obama is biracial thus that gives him some understanding of both white America and black America, but that's not really it.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Reading, Thinking, White

  Source: www.npr.org

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• As a Latin man, obviously immigration has been a part of my culture for decades. [I] grew up understanding what you go through in order to come to this country and searching for that American dream.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  Dream, Country, Latin

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• There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding.

  Richard Dawkins

  Source: inters.org

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• I wish that in the course of my visit to places the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] calls home, all of a sudden, we would reach a clear understanding on how we can resolve the matters. We will be very glad if that happens. Are there any chances? Perhaps.

  Vladimir Putin

  Home, Wish, Matter

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I think I had gotten messages really young that poetry wasn't for me, that it was for, basically, some dead white men. My experience and my intellect was on the outside of understanding that. I think that's what's so destructive.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Men, Thinking, White Man

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• For me as a writer, it was understanding that we're so far behind in our way of dealing with death. We put someone in the ground, we bury them or we burn them, and then we're supposed to just move on and kind of get over it.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Moving, Way, Kind

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• I soon found I could not talk about that in a vacuum without understanding the historical, cultural, political context, and giving it some legacy and some roots, and so then it just started to have tentacles that just spread out in all these places, and already a vicious project became pretty overwhelming in scope, and so it was a lot of diligent, day-to-day fighting with the footage, trying to get it down to a place where it was manageable and emotional.

  Ava DuVernay

  Fighting, Emotional, Roots

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• "Am I my brother's keeper?" There you have the whole Biblical understanding that you are your brother's keeper. You also have a whole other understanding in which you are not your brother's keeper. And I've heard some extremely bright people take this position.

  Elie Wiesel

  Brother, Biblical, People

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• [Sacrifice of Isaac] is a major theme of the so-called Elohist [one authorial strand in the Pentateuch]. It is marked by all of his linguistic characteristics, and so on. We cannot determine what is historical and what isn't. As literary critics, we would understand the importance of this for understanding life, destiny. But the historical question must be left with a question mark.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Sacrifice, Destiny, Historical

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• What [Franz] Kafka says about the Tower of Babel: In the beginning there were actually many languages, and then as a punishment God gave the world a single language. And then they stopped understanding each other.

  Elie Wiesel

  Punishment, Tower Of Babel, Towers

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• You teach someone about fallopian tubes in grade school, and you revisit it again in seventh grade for a better understanding of that stuff. I think it's never-ending. I don't know why it isn't all the time.

  Jen Kirkman

  School, Thinking, Stuff

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• I believe in the 12 Jewels and try to provide my childrem with them. That is Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Love, Peace and Happiness.

  RZA

  Believe, Justice Equality, Jewels

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