"We've come from the same history - 2000……" — Jon Stewart
"We've come from the same history - 2000 years of persecution - we've just expressed our sufferings differently. Blacks developed the blues. Jews complained, we just never thought of putting it to music."
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230 Quotes by Jon Stewart
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I'm doing everything I can to sabotage my career. It's a little thing called "fear of success".
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The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is…
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Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let…
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Bad jokes and gay marriage are destroying this country. But torture can save it.
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Don't confuse [Father's Day] with Valentine's Day, and here's why. Boy, will you creep him out. I can just tell…
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Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys…
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I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried…
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The last thing we'll hear is some scientist saying 'It works!'
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Is listening to Pink Floyd in the dark a medical condition?
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I've always run by the hierarchy of 'If not funny, interesting. If not interesting, hot. If not hot, bizarre. If…
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More Blacks Quotes
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
— Hank Aaron
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So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks.…
— Steven Biko
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What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear.
— Maya Angelou
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We need to be protecting American citizens who are here, out of work, and hurting today-minorities, Blacks and Whites and…
— Jeff Sessions
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together,…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people…
— Steven Biko
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I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.
— Frances Farenthold
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Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.
— William Lloyd Garrison
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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
— Jesse Jackson
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All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not…
— Leontyne Price
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