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It's an unfortunate fact that in the male black population, a very significant percentage of them, more so than whites or other minority candidates, because of convictions, prison records, are never going to be hired by a police department. That's a reality. That's not a byproduct of stop-and-frisk.
William Bratton
Reality
Police
Black
Minority
Prison
Convictions
Other
Significant
Percentage
More
Records
Fact
Never
Police Department
Because
Hired
Male
Very
Than
Department
Going
Candidates
Unfortunate
Them
Whites
Population
There is a class of persons whose souls are essentially non-conductors to the electricity of sentiment, and whose minds seem to be filled with their own train of thinking, convictions, and purposes to the exclusion of everything else.
William Godwin
Class
Own
Sentiment
Convictions
Thinking
Else
Everything
Minds
Everything Else
Seem
Purposes
Exclusion
Souls
Train
Essentially
Persons
Electricity
Filled
Whose
How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.
William Morris Hunt
Work
Convictions
Painting
Others
Our
Frankly
Ourselves
Make
Talkers
How
Lecturing
Going
Them
Working
Showing
Painters
Paintings
I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.
Wole Soyinka
Day
Me
Every Day
People
Wake Up
Power
Convictions
Live
Every
Other
Despise
Way
Danger
Threat
Armed
Know
Force
Wake
Up
Yielding
Any
Any Other Way
Them
Might
Who
I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.
Henry Rollins
Me
People
Communicate
Political
Lost
Band
Convictions
Believe
Higher
Higher Level
Leads
Practical
However
Than
Front
Being
Confirmed
Then
Show
Now
Now And Then
Among
Level
Humans
Need
Numbers
We ought to have the courage of our convictions and confidence in our own ingenuity. After all, that's what America is all about. Either that, or learn Mandarin.
Ben Sasse
Confidence
Courage
Own
Convictions
Ought
Our
About
Learn
America
After
Either
Ingenuity
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