"I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived."

Time, Privilege, Right, Vote

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"I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived."

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

Evita Peron, Argentinian Statesman

Time, Right

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Time, Luck, Now

"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Time, Mind, Perception, Experience

"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer

Time, Work, People, Democracy

"Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet."

Chris Brown, American Musician

Time, People, Dream, Acting

"Time is running out to permeate the piece."

Tommy Tune, American Dancer

Time, Running

"We have not the time to take our time."

Eugene Ionesco, French Dramatist

Time,

"No money can buy back the moment that is gone"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Money, Value, Life

"Laws are silent in time of war."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Time, War, Laws

"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

Time, Life, Explanations, Waste

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"Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it."

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"Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more."

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"I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people."

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"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent."

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"We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle."

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"One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto."

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

"Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet."

"Time is running out to permeate the piece."

"We have not the time to take our time."

"No money can buy back the moment that is gone"

"Laws are silent in time of war."

"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

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"A man is born free."

"The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals."

"No man can given anybody his freedom."

"The first need of a free people is to define their own terms."

"Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it."

"Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more."

"I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people."

"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent."

"We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle."

"One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto."