Quote by William Faulkner
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality becaus

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. – William Faulkner

Other quotes by William Faulkner

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. – William Faulkner

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Art
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Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. – William Faulkner

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Time
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Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise. – Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise," And Still I Rise

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Black History

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. – William Hazlitt

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Black History

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. – Franklin Thomas

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Black History

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. – Booker T. Washington

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Black History

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A barrier is of ideas, not of things. – Mark Caine

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Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle. – Bill Phillips

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