Tavis Smiley Quotes - Page 2

• I fear that we are living in a society, living in a world where forgiving people is becoming more and more difficult to do.

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  People, Forgiving, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

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  Practice, Acorns, Virtue

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, "the soft bigotry of low expectations."

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  Country, Thinking, Expectations

  "Education an economic issue?". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• Even behind bars, even on Death Row, you can fail up, because life is about committing ourselves on a daily basis to the best in us. Freedom is a state of mind. Freedom is an attitude. Freedom is a spirit. You may be behind bars, but you still have the capacity to be free.

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  Attitude, Mind Freedom, May

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?

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  Opportunity, Appreciate

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• No quiero que la era Obama sea más simbólica que sustancial en lo que se refiere a los negros. Le quiero, pero quiero aún más a los negros.

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  I Love Him, Symbolism, People

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Even in the era of the first black president, racism is still the most intractable issue in USA. Regarding poverty, half of all Americans are either in or near poverty. Poverty is certainly worse for African-Americans now than it was during King's lifetime.

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  Kings, Issues, Usa

  "Tavis Smiley on repositioning Dr. King as a revolutionary". Interview With Kam Williams, baystatebanner.com. December 11, 2014.

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• My acting gives me my self-worth

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  Self Worth, Giving, Acting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm very musically curious and I love new experience. I'm an adventurer. Some people want to sort of stay in a safe zone and repeat the same things and give them more depth, and I want to do new things all the time

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  New Experiences, People, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We're all cracked vessels, and we're always in process, I think, every one of us.

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  Thinking, Process, Vessel

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

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  School, Boys, Black

  "Education an economic issue?". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• John Carlos proporcionó al mundo una de las imágenes más icónicas de la década de 1960 con su saludo al Poder Negro tras ganar una medalla en los Juegos de verano de 1968.

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  Summer, Winning, Games

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Toda comunidad tiene un Martin Luther King Boulevard. Es la piedra angular que todos conocemos. No es solo una calle o un bulevar, sino un lugar donde Walmart se une a su comunidad para hacer que cada día sea mejor.

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  Kings, Community, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Era un humanista entonces, es un humanista ahora, y en mi opinión John Carlos es un auténtico héroe americano.

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  Hero, Mind, Humanist

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters.

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  Black, Voters, Republican

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Be careful about gossiping because loose lips really do sink ships. Now that I'm in the broadcast business, and people talk about me, I know what it feels like to be the victim of gossip.

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  Gossip, People, Victim

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I'm always fascinated by people from the Midwest, because it is so different than Hollywood, who discover at some point that they want to be in Hollywood.

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  Personas, Diferentes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [John Carlos] has spent much of his life since that time as a dedicated human rights advocate and public speaker, and he is out now with a wonderful new text; a memoir, in fact.

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  Rights, Facts, Wonderful

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

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  Ideas, America, Firsts

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• La historia está repleta de ejemplos de momentos en los que se habla de reducción del déficit y se intenta avanzar en ello en todo el mundo, es decir, en los que conduce a la pérdida de puestos de trabajo, no a su creación.

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  Jobs, Loss, Trying

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• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

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  Growing Up, Guy, Shadow

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• Mi papel en la televisión es ayudar a la gente a reexaminar los supuestos que tienen. Me refiero al Dr. King. Nunca me oirás levantarme y hablar sin referirme, de alguna forma o manera, al Dr. King.

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  Kings, People, Roles

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• Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.

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  Insightful, Generations, Columnists

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• Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

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  Poverty, Wealth, Form

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.

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  Dad, Struggle, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

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