Beah Richards quotes
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“Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?”
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“Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?”
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“Having grown up in a racist culture where 2 and 2 are not 5, I have found life to be incredibly theatrical and theater to be profoundly lifeless.”
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“Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. Blood doesn't run in races! Come on!”
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“There are a lot of movies out there that I would hate to be paid to do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating stuff. It is up to women to change their roles. They are going to have to write the stuff and do it. And they will.”
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“For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.”
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“When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.”
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“Nature is neither reasonable nor just. Nature is exact.”
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“On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.”
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Source : Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai, Azim Kidwai (1989). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.374, World Scientific
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“I think people are rapidly losing confidence in the political class, and I don't blame them.”
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“Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.”
Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.
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“A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.”
Source : Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
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