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Letter "R" » Roy Wilkins Quotes
«Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education. Be persistent and ornery: this will be good for the lethargic educational establishment and will aid the whole cause of public education.»
Author: Roy Wilkins
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
aid, educational, establishment, in-fighting, lethargic, ornery, overlooked, persistent, public education
«Most of the time I played by myself. Even then I was a loner, and I have stayed a loner all my life. [It] can make a man seem a little distant or aloof -- but it has helped pull me through some tight spots and hard times.»
«Muffle your rage. Get smart instead of muscular.»
«The players in this drama of frustration and indignity are not commas or semicolons in a legislative thesis; they are people, human beings, citizens of the United States of America.»
Author: Roy Wilkins
(Statesman)
| About:
Actors and acting,
America and Americans
| Keywords:
comma, commas, frustration, indignities, indignity, legislative, semicolon, semicolons, thesis, The United States of America, United States of America
«. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.»
«The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.»
Author: Roy Wilkins
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
disappointments, disengagement, long jump, sweet talk, talk of, The Hard
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