Leah Ward Sears quotes
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“I'd like to see marriage count again among African-Americans and not just in the society in general.”
-- Leah Ward SearsSource : "Georgia High Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.
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“A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.”
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“We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.”
-- Leah Ward SearsSource : "Georgia High Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.
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“I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.”
-- Leah Ward SearsSource : "Georgia High Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.
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“When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life.”
-- Leah Ward SearsSource : "Georgia High Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 2, 2005.
#Growing Up Quotes #African American Quotes #Important Quotes
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“we are the ones we have been waiting for”
Source : Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press
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Source : "Democratic Rep: Tea Party Would Love To See Black People ‘Hanging On A Tree’" By Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2011.
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“It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.”
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