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Quote by Thurgood Marshall
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots. – Thurgood Marshall

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The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down. – Thurgood Marshall

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Black History
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Thurgood Marshall
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A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. Its not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for. – Thurgood Marshall

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Racism
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Thurgood Marshall
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Teacher Appreciation
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. – Gail Godwin

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Teacher Appreciation

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. – K. Patricia Cross

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Teacher Appreciation

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. – Karl Menninger

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Teacher Appreciation

What a teacher writes on the blackboard of life can never be erased. – Author Unknown

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Teacher Appreciation

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…the curious hunter-up of rare quotations… the young and struggling scribbler… – William Francis Henry King, “Introduction,” Classical and Foreign Quotations, 18

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Quotations

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well. – Victoria Justice

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Hope

In regards to being a fashion aficionado, theres a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person cant completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful. – St. Vincent

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design

Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too. – Jerry B. Jenkins

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Faith