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"I really wanted to know about the archaeology of South Africa and although Professor Wintle and I came from different backgrounds, we learned from each other. She took me through the steps of the science behind luminescence dating. I was meticulous and hard-working and never gave up and realised I had innate ability to do science."

"Ever since the evacuation of Americans of Japanese ancestry and Japanese along the Pacific Coast was proposed, I have pointed out that the issue was one of race and on that basis affected anyone who was physically distinguishable as ‘colored’"

"To visit evacuation [evacuated] neighborhoods and talk with neighbors of the ‘evil, treacherous, fifth column menaces’ who are being summarily moved away, who have been adjudged guilty without any trial at which to claim innocence was to acknowledge an event with all earmarks of a legalized community lynching."

"“Friends, this is how Hitler made little Nazis: by reaching the children and youth through stories and pictures, he taught them to fear and hate certain groups"

"Through friends and newspapers I have maintained a fairly close contact with the evacuee-victims of our lack of confidence in American education and government agencies. On Christmas Eve it was my pleasure to have as a houseguest an old friend who is teaching in the relocation center at Poston. I hasten to suggest that Mr. Leffingwell could find among the Japanese and Nisei internees some real characters whose story, recounted by him in picture, would set before his small readers an example of courage, sensitivity, forgiveness and humility such as would set his cartoon aside from the petty humdrum of its fellows."

"Americans of Chinese ancestry share in disproportionate measure the apprehension of other non-Whites with regard to the summary treatment of Americans of Japanese ancestry. Tightening of residential restrictions against them, for instance, in the neighborhood surrounding San Francisco’s ‘Chinatown’ gives basis for their fears."

"Joint hosts on the negroes’ invitation would be Nisei, American Indians and other Americans whose physical characteristics make them detectable. I have heard of no such observance during Brotherhood week."

"advocacy programmes should be extended to society as a whole so that breastfeeding can again become the "natural way to feed a baby."And it doesn't help when many health workers are so quick to advise formula feeding."

"Mothers found it difficult to stop breast-feeding earlier than the norm, and it therefore is important that mothers considering early cessation of breast-feeding be given sufficient preparation and support."

"If you hurt the Igbo man once in politics, that is it; he will never allow you to hurt him again. He will recoil into himself and stay there. That’s the average Igbo man."

"One takes a vow when one wants to get married, and it is for better and for worse. Not for better, for us. One will always think it is greener on the other side. That is the mistake we all make."

"For vaccine development presently, the South African AIDS Vaccine initiative has no money."

"I'm not very sure that we have so far seen substantial enforcement against the so-called ‘big-fish’ in the markets."

"I’d say definitely yes. There, there are quite a few experiences that I would say shaped me first and foremost. I would say my family because within my family, we had so many different experiences and so many opportunities for informal learning that just deposited all kinds of skills and knowledge within me that I didn’t even know I would need later on in life."

"And then, augmenting that, I would say school because I always loved school. For formal and informal learning, school has always been a space that shaped me with different experiences."

"And church and my spiritual life — my relationship with God has always been very important to me and that has not only shaped me to be able to respond to the situations I found myself in at different times, but also has led me and guided me in certain directions."

"I would say that, before I even knew what computer science or electrical engineering, what those terms even meant — long before that, one of the very earliest moments or period of time that got me excited about technology, were the Apollo space missions."

"Those were going on when I was, when I was 9, 10, 11 years old, and I was just riveted by the TV whenever they would show that control room with all those computers and all those people sitting there monitoring and managing these space missions. And Apollo 11 — that was the thing. The first lunar landing was just amazing. And that got me very excited about technology."

"I did more of the pulling apart than putting together but yes, and my family was very patient with me and, in fact, encouraged me to take the things apart and figure out what was in there, and experiment and explore."

"One is the sheer awe I felt at being in the same room with intellectuals, civil rights leaders and community organizers wrestling with big questions from the purpose of these museums to how the culture would be presented and how museums could be changed to accommodate what they thought might be most useful. Secondly"

"It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be."

"Fight fear. Face truth. Embrace life."

"Inspired by a true story."

"Antwone Fisher is at war... with himself."

"Derek Luke - Ship's Serviceman Third Class/Seaman Antwone "Fish" Fisher"

"Denzel Washington - Lt. Cmdr. Dr. Jerome Davenport"

"Joy Bryant - Petty Officer Second Class Cheryl Smolley"

"Salli Richardson - Berta Davenport"

"Leonard Earl Howze - Pork Chop"

"Kente Scott - Kansas City"

"Kevin Connolly - Slim"

"Rainoldo Gooding - Grayson"

"Novella Nelson - Mrs. Tate"

"Stephen Snedden - Berkley"

"Leo Nepomuceno - SP #1"

"Sung Kang - Davenport's receptionist"

"Cordell Stokes - Keith"

"Ellis Williams - Reverend Tate"

"Timothy Reddick - Dwight"

"Yolonda Ross - Nadine Tate"

"De'Angelo Wilson - Jesse (age 19)"

"Vernee Watson-Johnson - Annette Elkins"

"Viola Davis - Eva May"

"Eddie Spears - Chasing Crane"

"Sean Wei Mah - Bull Head"

"Eric Schweig - Chief Gall"

"Jimmy Herman - Yellow Bird"

"Patrick St. Esprit - Major James Walsh"

"My dear Senator Dawes, as I believed you sincere in asking me to keep you informed, I write you again in an appeal for your assistance. With no medical equipment here worthy of the name and understocked in medicines, there has been little reason for the sick to risk the journey to the agency for treatment. I bought a horse and a wagon with my own salary and have just now returned from the several weeks in the villages. It is a mistake to trust the official reports. Measles, influenza and whooping cough have ascended from hell all at once. My own assistant's child has been taken. The agent here, Royer, has no experience and even less inclination to help these people. Of equal concern is the epidemic of hopelessness that has overtaken the reservation. That the Sioux would bear the wretched taste of cod-liver oil for the ounce of spirits contained in the bottle is, to me, the whole of their experience in a nutshell. I no longer deny them. Many here fear a return to the old ways. The prophesy of a Paiute shaman called Wovoka has spread from tribe to tribe faster than a telegraph signal, rekindling old superstitions among the Sioux and old apprehensions among the whites who are sure to mistake desperation for hostility. As conditions worsen, the church can provide little solace beyond a Christian burial. Sincerely yours, Charles Eastman."

"A vision came to me when the sun went into shadow, and I lay dying. And in my death, I saw the Heavens of the white robes. And yes, it is as they describe it. But also there, my children, all the Indians that ever roamed this earth, all your beloved ancestors, and mine, and those young ones who were taken by the white man's diseases. Do not grieve for them. They want you to know that they are happy. Yes. And you should not grieve for yourselves, because here is what the white robes did not tell you- the white man, my children, will soon be no more. Now you must not hate the white man. This will only delay his end. But if you will do the dance that I will teach you, all the ancestors will return. And the buffalo will be renewed. And you shall all live forever. Forever in the freedom that we as Indian people once knew."