Crow Quotes - Page 5

• (F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement.

  Walter E. Williams

  Years, Achievement, Agendas

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• I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Men, Ideas, People

  Nic Pizzolatto (2011). “Galveston: A Novel”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• I don’t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of Jim Crow and slavery has not gone away. It is not an accident that African-Americans experience high crime rates, are poor, and have less wealth. It is a direct result of our racial history.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Believe, Race

  "On the Road with Barack Obama". www.essence.com. December, 16, 2009.

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• The crows may crow, but the hens deliver the goods.

  Steven Tyler

  May, Hens, Goods

  "'American Idol' Recap: Jessica Sanchez Catches 'Biggest Fish' of the Night" by Michele Amabile Angermiller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2012.

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• I wouldn't vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.

  Ron Paul

  Jim Crow Laws, Vote, Law

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. May 8, 2009.

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• Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow.

  Lani Guinier

  Book, School, Loss

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• The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Father, Party, Firsts

  "Transcript of Condi Rice's Convention Speech". ABC NEWS, abcnews.go.com.

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• Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.

  Rand Paul

  Rights, Jim Crow Laws, Practice

  "Rand Paul attempts to clarify" by Steve Benen, washingtonmonthly.com. May 20, 2010.

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• London, black as crows and noisy as ducks, prudish with all the vices in evidence, everlastingly drunk, in spite of ridiculous laws about drunkenness, immense, though it is really basically only a collection of scandal-mongering boroughs, vying with each other, ugly and dull, without any monuments except interminable docks.

  Paul Verlaine

  Law, Ducks, Drunk

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• May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in the sun.

  Arundhati Roy

  Air, Rivers, Long

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.1, Penguin Books India

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• I came to my first Colts training camp in July of 1950, and it was murder, absolute murder. We had a coach named Clem Crow who must have been nuts. You got to remember that I'd been a Marine, had gone through basic training and spent 26 months in the Pacific during WWII, but the Marine drill instructors had nothing on Clem.

  Art Donovan

  Marine, Nuts, July

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• I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I want to be around for a very long time. I want to be like a Sheryl Crow or a Melissa Etheridge or even a Madonna with how her career has lasted so long and she is still respected in the music business. That's really what I am aiming for. I'm not really looking for 15 minutes of fame.

  Cheyenne Kimball

  Careers, Long, Want

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.

  Gary Bauer

  Temptation, Credit, Urges

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• More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote.

  Michelle Alexander

  Space, Mainstream Society, Racism

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.58, The New Press

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• It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

  Thomas More

  Men, Thinking, Apes

  Thomas More (2016). “More: Utopia”, p.14, Cambridge University Press

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• Give people a taste of Old Crow, and tell them it's Old Crow. Then give them another taste of Old Crow, but tell them it's Jack Daniel's. Ask them which they prefer. They'll think the two drinks are quite different. They are tasting images

  David Ogilvy

  Thinking, Two, People

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• Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.

  Epictetus

  Eye, Soul, Needs

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.124, Lulu.com

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• And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Horse, Home

  Barack Obama's Speech at National Prayer Breakfast, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 5, 2015.

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• Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.

  Alison Gopnik

  Dog, Animal, Intelligent

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• As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs.

  Jon Meacham

  Dog, Epic, Fire

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• In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.

  Rand Paul

  Party, Fighting, Kentucky

  "Rand Paul Is Proud Of The GOP’s Tradition Of Supporting ‘Civil Rights’" by Sarah Fruchtnicht, www.opposingviews.com. October 13, 2013.

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• My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.

  Rumi

  Heart, Soul, Sugar

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• When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?

  Kiran Desai

  Father, Rooftops, Helping

  FaceBook post by Kiran Desai from Jun 16, 2014

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• [M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.

  Moderata Fonte

  White, Knowing, Envy

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• It was stealing her breath, imbecile. Go get a towel." -Christophe, Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Angel, Towels, Imbeciles

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