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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk. - Gary Ackerman
The Jerk Quotes
Freedom
Threatened
Gary Ackerman
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There's a knee jerk reaction in Washington when something isn't perfect to just add more money, add more personnel, it'll all be OK. That's not true, especially with complex issues like veterans health care. - Dan Crenshaw
The Jerk Quotes
Veterans
Washington
Dan Crenshaw
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As much as I like to be thoughtful and think things through in my decision making - I don't like knee jerk decisions - but I'm not afraid to make decisions. - Ron Jaworski
The Jerk Quotes
Thoughtful
Decision
Ron Jaworski
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I love jerk chicken. I could literally eat it every single day of my life. I also like curry goat, rice and peas, and ackee and saltfish. For some reason, no one ever taught me how to cook, though. They've always cooked for me! - Justine Skye
The Jerk Quotes
Cooked
Literally
Justine Skye
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I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover. - Leo Buscaglia
The Jerk Quotes
Sentimental
Platitudes
Leo Buscaglia
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I never liked talking about myself or my background because I hated bringing back bad memories. And sometimes when I talked, it would come out the wrong way, and I'd look like a jerk. That's why I became an enigma to people. - Rod Carew
The Jerk Quotes
Background
Talking
Rod Carew
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You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through. - Oprah Winfrey
The Jerk Quotes
Bigger
Really
Oprah Winfrey
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It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. - Emiliano Zapata
Zapata Quotes
Knees
Better
Emiliano Zapata
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I was forced away from the plantation because I wouldn't go back and withdraw, you know, my literacy test after I had tried to take it. I wouldn't go back.- Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
Plantation
Forced
Fannie Lou Hamer
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We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of the fields, if they had a radio, they'd be too tired to play it. So we didn't know what was going on in the rest of the state, even, much less in other places. - Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
Registering
Flat
Fannie Lou Hamer
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Why should I leave Ruleville, and why should I leave Mississippi? I go to the big city, and with the kind of education they give us in Mississippi, I got problems. I'd wind up in a soup line there. - Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
Soup
Problems
Fannie Lou Hamer
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I had to leave, and my husband was forced to stay on this plantation until after the harvest season was over. And then the man that we had worked for, he'd taken the car, and the most of the few things we had had been stolen. - Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
Stolen
Stay
Fannie Lou Hamer
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. - Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
Tired
Being
Fannie Lou Hamer
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What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no longer ignore the fact that America is not the... land of the free and the home of the brave. - Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
People
Necessary
Fannie Lou Hamer
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With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens. - Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
People
Happens
Fannie Lou Hamer
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There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people. - Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
Better
Movement
Fannie Lou Hamer
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I'd been in jail, and I'd been beat. I had been to a voter registration workshop, you know, to - they were just training and teaching us how to register, to pass the literacy test. - Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
Literacy
Been
Fannie Lou Hamer
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White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made. - Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
Because
Watched
Fannie Lou Hamer
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I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face. - Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
Wrap
Thing
Fannie Lou Hamer
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I'm showing the people that a Negro can run for office. - Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes
Office
Showing
Fannie Lou Hamer