"Slavery was not a bad day on the……" — John Ridley
"Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation."
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26 Quotes by John Ridley
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Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism - the truths that we hold self-evident, even when…
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Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning…
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Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our…
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Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.
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When times are tough, people want to escape to somewhere fantastic without having to pay actual escape-to-somewhere-fantastic cash. And offering…
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Oh, happy day when the enemies of ascendancy have got to confess that people of color rock.
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Perhaps the single most important thing for a child is to be with a loving, supportive family. And all things…
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If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of…
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There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the…
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Bad news: Complainers are rewarded for complaining. Indicative of the victim culture in which we live, people have not only…
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While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than…
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For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during…
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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Bad men are full of repentance.
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I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -…
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
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