"People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not."
-Henry Louis Gates
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"We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.“
-Henry Louis Gates
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"Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?"
-Henry Louis Gates
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"The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred."
-Henry Louis Gates
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"The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?"
-Henry Louis Gates
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"The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up."
-Henry Louis Gates
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"The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment."
-Henry Louis Gates
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"Even when I'm playing someone named Fat Amy, I'm all about confidence and attitude."
-Rebel Wilson
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"An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him."
-William Minto
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"I can't believe the pro-choicers attitude toward unborn children-to me it's the ultimate liberal cause, to defend those without a voice."
-Michael Aston
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"The attitude of the actor is his interpretation of what he reads, and the written word is what creates the role in the actor's mind, and I guess in reading the things that were given to me, I reacted as you guys saw me, you know."
-Gene Barry
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"A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people."
-Bessie Head
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"My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd."
-Arthur Holly Compton
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