"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

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"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."

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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."

Charlotte Bunch, American Activist

Cultural, Culture, Discrimination, Gender, Violence

"Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute."

James E. Rogers, American Educator

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"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."

Yahoo Serious, Australian Director

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"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."

Herb Ritts, American Photographer

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"Country music is the poetry of the American spirit."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Cultural, Music, Culture, Spirit, Poetry

"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."

Alan Dundes, American Educator

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"Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture."

Morley Safer, Canadian Journalist

Cultural, Culture, Popular, Reality

"Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not."

Barbara Kruger, American Artist

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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

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"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

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"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

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"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."

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"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."

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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""

"Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture."

"Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute."

"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."

"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up."

"Country music is the poetry of the American spirit."

"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."

"Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture."

"Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not."

"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

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"I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life."

"Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world."

"The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished."

"When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea."

"In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease."

"I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s."

"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial."

"My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves."

"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."

"The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath."