John Amos quotes

John Amos quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.”
-- John Amos

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“To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins. ... Therefore, he who differentiates well teaches well.”
-- John Amos

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“Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.”
-- John Amos

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“The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill ... its purpose is to reach a political goal,”

Source : "Abu Abbas: from terrorist to peace advocate" by Rob Reynolds, www.cnn.com. May 10, 1996.
“Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.”
“In actual fact the pacifistic-humane idea is perfectly all right perhaps when the highest type of man has previously conquered and subjected the world to an extent that makes him the sole ruler of this earthâ€¦ Therefore, first struggle and then perhaps pacifism.”
“I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl Marx's life effort. Only now did his Capital become really intelligible to me, and also the struggle of the Social Democracy against the national economy, which aims only to prepare the ground for the domination of truly international finance and stock exchange capital.”
“Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.”
“Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in a dynamic, ongoing process that produces and continually refines an individual”

Source : David Shenk (2010). “The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ”, p.13, Anchor
“We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.”
“People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “This Book Will Save Your Life”, p.29, Granta Books
“I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.”
“There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.”

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