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Quote by Alex Haley
My fondest hope is that Roots may start black, white, brown, red,

My fondest hope is that Roots may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall. – Alex Haley

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In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future. – Alex Haley

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Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics. – Alex Haley

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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. – Alex Haley

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A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other peoples hope. – Christopher Hitchens

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All hope abandon, ye who enter here! – Dante Alighieri

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Hope

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp. – Nancy Reagan

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Hope

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm. – Stanislav Grof

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Smiles escape from clouds above and angels ring a chorus of your love. – Daniel, @blindedpoet

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Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And thats not just measured in words or gestures. – Jennifer M. Granholm

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Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. – Author Unknown

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Try not. Do or do not. There is no try. – Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back

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