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"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""
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"My father was a writer and an acting teacher."
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"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled."
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"That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."
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"Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything."
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"Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things."
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"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""
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"Memphis is a great town, man. There's a great musical community here. I'm trying to fit in."
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"The plastic on your sandwich really doesn't have to be made to last 50 years."
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"The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can't believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling."
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"There was hostility surrounding doing my job."
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"My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I'd photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up photographing the changing of the times."
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"Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change."
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