"We've got to show that blacks and whites……" — Josephine Baker
"We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?"
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45 Quotes by Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker has 45 quotes on this site.
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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
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I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.
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I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But…
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I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other…
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I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.
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I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because…
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I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
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You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.
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Art is an elastic sort of love.
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I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so…
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Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing,…
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The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.
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More Army Quotes
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but…
— Arthur Ashe
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You never find yourself until you face the truth.
— Pearl Bailey
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
— Jane Addams
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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of…
— Joseph Addison
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Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.
— John Belushi
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I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
— Mayim Bialik
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
— Aesop
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My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to…
— James Blunt
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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