Quotes with right-about-face

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  • Amy Hempel We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.
    Rick Moody (2007) 60
    Amy Hempel
    American short story writer and journalist (1951 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Malcolm X We declare our right on this earth to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Bayard Rustin We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist (1912 - 1987)
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  • Bill Flores We do have our challenges. Some things don't always work right in Washington, and the anger you see from the electorate, I think, is a reflection of what's not working right.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Burgess Owens We don't have to wonder or drift with society; the Lord has a very strong and clear pathway of what is right and where blessings come from.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Carlton Cuse We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
    Telegram to President John F. Kennedy (16 June 1963)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Antoinette Brown Blackwell We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted.
    Antoinette Brown Blackwell
    American Protestant minister (1825 - 1921)
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  • Ann Veneman We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Camille Paglia We have an evolutionary revulsion from slime, the site of our biologic origins. Every month, it is woman's fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Harold Macmillan We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
    Harold Macmillan
    British Conservative politician, prime minister (1894 - 1986)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg We have to be aware that the scientific community throws up tons of different hypotheses and at a certain point we'll find out who was right and who was wrong. But we have to go with the best information right now, which I would claim to be the IPCC reports.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Andrew Cohen We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Kofi Annan We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
    We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century (2015) 68
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Brigid Brophy We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.
    Brigid Brophy
    British novelist and critic (1929 - 1995)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Mark Twain We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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