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Water Fountain Quotes

Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked ‘Colored.’ When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony Picture Quote #1

Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Keep near to the fountain-head and with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation Picture Quote #1

Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets Picture Quote #1

Michelle Alexander’s brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow Picture Quote #1

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there’s music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing Picture Quote #1

Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water Picture Quote #1

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As water in a fountain flows as one stream, but falls in many drops divided by time and space, so are the revelations of the one stream of truth Picture Quote #1

Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source of continuous being Picture Quote #1

Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity Picture Quote #1

My poems are like a dagger sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain sprinkling streams of coral water Picture Quote #1

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray Picture Quote #1

People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same Picture Quote #1

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Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at many restaurants and could only drink from water fountains marked ‘Colored.’ When I went to the movies, I would have to sit in the Colored balcony. (Water Fountain Quotes) Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Keep near to the fountain-head and with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation (Water Fountain Quotes) Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets (Water Fountain Quotes) Michelle Alexander’s brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow (Water Fountain Quotes) Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there’s music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing (Water Fountain Quotes) Poetry is a plan for a slit in the face of a bronze fountain goat and the path of fresh drinking water. (Water Fountain Quotes) As water in a fountain flows as one stream, but falls in many drops divided by time and space, so are the revelations of the one stream of truth (Water Fountain Quotes) Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source of continuous being (Water Fountain Quotes) Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity (Water Fountain Quotes) My poems are like a dagger sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain sprinkling streams of coral water (Water Fountain Quotes) Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray (Water Fountain Quotes) People get bent out of shape about the fact that when I was a kid, you could not drink out of certain water fountains. Well, the water was the same (Water Fountain Quotes)