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• Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

  Bell Hooks

  Media, Black, Would Be

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• In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on.

  Joe Lhota

  New York, Government, Cities

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• We have to convince people that the handouts - just taking a few little handouts, where you have a subsistent living, where you never grow, just get a little check and a few food stamps, it will keep you on the plantation for the rest of your life, that's not a life. That's not living. It is not good enough. It is not acceptable. We have to educate our people that that is no longer good. You have to get off the plantation, off the government plantation.

  Elbert Guillory

  Government, People, Not Good Enough

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• Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.

  Tom Upton

  Snitch, Librarian, Notorious

  Tom Upton (2016). “Fading Away”, p.90, Tom Upton

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• No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind up doing, by all means convince yourself that you HAD to do it. You’ll have lots of company.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mean, Wind, Want

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• I have to convince myself that this is not a pointless life, even the body is telling me so.

  Sara Gruen

  Body, Pointless

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• The problem is, we have yet to convince the Taliban they are fellow passengers on spaceship Earth.

  Will Durst

  Earth, Politics, Problem

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• Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.

  Thomas Sowell

  Politics, Causes, Vote

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• The greatest propaganda coup of the American right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.

  Shane Smith

  Citizens, Conspiracy, Propaganda

  "Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice - it's within my grasp'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2013.

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• You may tell me that my hand and foot are only imaginary symbols of my existence. I could believe you, but you never, never can convince me that the I is not an eternal reality, and that the spiritual is not the true and real part of me.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Spiritual, Real, Believe

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• There is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who's willing to risk everything to make it happen.

  Sam Childers

  Risk, That One Person, Unbelievable Things

  Sam Childers (2009). “Another Man's War: The True Story of One Man's Battle to Save Children in the Sudan”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Book, Reading, Doctors

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Party, Men, Society

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• History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strong, War, Believe

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.

  Peter Ustinov

  Jesus, Machines, Television

  "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" edited by Robert Andrews, (p. 742), 1993.

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• My parents, who were Communists, always pretended to be American patriots. You can always convince yourself you are: 'I love America, I just want it to be perfect, which it will be when it becomes a Soviet Communist state'. When the left called for 'liberation' what it really wanted was to erase the human slate and begin again. Like everybody else, I see things that need to be improved. I just am mindful of the fact that they can be made a lot worse.

  David Horowitz

  War, America, Perfect

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• A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of destruction, leave you open for others to glare and laugh.

  Michael Bassey

  Perfect, Laughing, Telling The Truth

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• Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At times like that the only way out is for me to decide, 'To hell with it. I can't do it right, so I'll do it wrong. I can't do it well, but I can do it badly.' Sometimes, with luck, while I'm sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.

  Katherine Dunn

  Beautiful, Mistake, Luck

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• Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals as the soft-headed mental masturbation of people who really don't understand oppression and the depths of actual human misery, I hope to get you to think differently about suffering and pain, to convince you that animals matter, and to argue that anyone serious about ending domination and hierarchy needs to think critically about bringing animals into consideration.

  Bob Torres

  Pain, Thinking, Animal

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• You can't convince anyone of anything. You can only give them the right information, so that they convince themselves.

  Eben Pagan

  Giving, Information

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• The devil wants to convince you that dying is the worst thing. It is very much easier to do what god made you for than not.

  Jackie Pullinger

  Dying, Devil, Want

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• The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself.

  Domenico Cieri

  Men, Self, Want

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• For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't like the sound of their own voice on, like, cassette tape or something. It's like that for me, and other songwriters I know. Like, "Oh God, that's what I sound like?"

  Ryan Adams

  Jobs, Voice, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• It's only illusions that destroy us. It's illusions that convince us that we can't. It's the illusions of the transient that tell us that all this matters.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ignorance, Convince Us, Matter

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• The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Healing, Fighting

  Speech in Philadelphia, 10 May 1915, in 'Selected Addresses' (1918) p. 88

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