Crow Quotes - Page 9

• A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides through an interpreter, quite in the described mode,--the Indians, as usual, having the advantage in point of truth and earnestness, and therefore of eloquence. The most prominent chief was named Little Crow. They were quite dissatisfied with the white man's treatment of them, and probably have reason to be so.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Native American, Men, White Man

  Henry David Thoreau (1974). “The correspondence of Henry David Thoreau”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Character, Luck, Littles

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• When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Powerful, Intelligent, Laughing

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• What is the little one thinking about?
  Very wonderful things, no doubt;
  Unwritten history!
  Unfathomed mystery!
  Yet he laughs and cries, and eats and drinks,
  And chuckles and crows, and nods and winks,
  As if his head were as full of kinks
  And curious riddles as any sphinx!

  J. G. Holland

  Thinking, Laughing, Doubt

  J. G. HOLLAND (1863). “BITTER-SWEET A POEM”, p.26

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• I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag.

  William R. Ferris

  War, Thinking, Ties

  "Confederate Flag Debate Symbolizes Rapid Change In The South". "All Things Considered" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. June 23, 2015.

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• Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, White

  William Shakespeare, J. H. P. Pafford (1963). “The Winter's Tale: Second Series”, p.103, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• The true test of humility is whether you can say grace before eating crow.

  Robert Orben

  Humility, Grace, Tests

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• Because I'm sort of an honorary Canadian, I don't think the others grasped the cultural significance of who the Tragically Hip were before the tour. Talking to Sheryl Crow and her people and the guys in Wilco, everyone was ecstatic to be on the tour, it was a lot of fun. But it even took me a while to grasp the idea that this is not just a band, this is a cultural artifact, what the Hip means in Canada. There is nobody else like them.

  Steve Berlin

  Fun, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• As a criminal you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Rights, America

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Anyone can love a virtue, but a good human being is he or she who loves even vicious people. Everyone Loves the melodious voice of cuckoo, but who cares for Kaw- Kaw of crow.

  Lokendra Singh

  Voice, People, Who Cares

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• Ducks are sweet, crows are intelligent; but I prefer dolphins because they are both sweet and intelligent.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sweet, Intelligent, Ducks

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• You can be a flower in somebody's garden or a pig or the sunshine or a crow or a nightingale! Be something nice in someone else's garden.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nice, Flower, Sunshine

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• Animals like crows, owls or black cats are not ominous at all; it is the men's superstitious mind which is the inauspicious one!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Cat, Men, Animal

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• Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Eagles, Genius

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• What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with the language we use to justify it. In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color "criminals" and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.

  Michelle Alexander

  Race, Color, Practice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that’s a fact.

  E.W. Jackson

  Lynching, Ideas, Ku Klux Klan

  "Thies: Ew, Virginia! E.W. Jackson" by Chuck Thies, www.nbcwashington.com. June 26, 2013.

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• Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

  Sitting Bull

  Fake People, Native American, Men

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• In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still an issue, but because you have that complicated history of the Trail of Tears and slavery and Jim Crow, the Whitopia has a different flavor.

  Richard Benjamin

  Issues, Tears, Georgia

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in employment, housing, access to education and public benefits. So many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind during the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again once you've been branded a felon.

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Black, Benefits

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You cannot be responsible for Jim Crow. You can not be responsible for racism. This is much more a problem for the person exercising racism.You are confronted with the reality of racism when you go in the streets, when the eyes of others come upon you. [James] Baldwin goes back with you to all the experiences you went through and gives a name to them, and explains why it is like this.

  Raoul Peck

  Eye, Exercise, Reality

  "James Baldwin Was Never Your Negro". Interview With Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. February 3, 2017.

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• Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.

  Myrlie Evers-Williams

  Brother, White, Alive

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• Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Years, Two, America

  "The Case for Reparations". www.theatlantic.com.

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• I was born black, I attended all Negro schools including college, I grew up in the segregated South during Jim Crow. If anybody knows a racist, I do. Pat Buchanan ain't no racist.

  Ezola B. Foster

  School, College, Scary

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• You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Believe, School, Jim Crow Laws

  "Anna Deavere Smith: Let Me Down Easy". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. December 20, 2010.

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• Once in a while, God sends a good white person my way, even to this day. I think it's God's way of keeping me from becoming too mean. And when he sends a nice one to me, then I have to eat crow. And honey, crow is a tough old bird to eat, let me tell you.

  Annie Elizabeth Delany

  Nice, Mean, Thinking

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.77, Kodansha America

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