Eric Williams Quotes

• To increase student engagement and ownership of learning, we should give students opportunities to do meaningful work - work that makes a difference locally, nationally, and globally.

  Eric Williams

  Meaningful, Opportunity, Differences

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• Democracy, finally, rests on a higher power than Parliament. It rests on an informed and cultivated and alert public opinion. The Members of Parliament are only representatives of the citizens. They cannot represent apathy and indifference. They can play the part allotted to them only if they represent intelligence and public spiritness.

  Eric Williams

  Play, Democracy, Public Opinion

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• You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.

  Eric Williams

  Independent, Boss, World

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• Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

  Eric Williams

  Racism, Slavery, Born

  Eric Williams (2014). “The Economic Aspect of the Abolition of the West Indian Slave Trade and Slavery”, p.16, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Some things youll never know, and some things youll wish you never knew.

  Eric Williams

  Wish, Wish You, Knows

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• I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more.

  Eric Williams

  Writing, Thinking, Should

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• My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

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  Heart, Player, Different

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• They have no right to complain! If women were cool with knowing their man is cheating on them then they have no right to complain. Sit down somewhere. BUT, if it makes them unhappy then complain with the understanding that if he doesn't stop, get out the situation. End of story!

  Eric Williams

  Cheating, Men, Knowing

  Source: blacksportsonline.com

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• I played baseball, and thats pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so thats why I probably play it the way I do.

  Eric Williams

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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• For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.

  Eric Williams

  Ohio, Church, Lines

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• Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

  Eric Williams

  Basketball, Girl, Player

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