"My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today."

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"My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today."

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians."

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"Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls."

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"It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us."

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"The dream was not to put one black family in the White house, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house."

Family

"We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances."

Politics

"Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance."

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"The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country."

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"I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy."

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"I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes."

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"One of the reasons I get so much joy out of my own children's childhoods is that I'm having my first childhood myself."

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