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Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
Carter G. Woodson

Known, Outside, Scholars

I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
Jeff Bridges

America, Working, Team

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.
Brian Eno

Energy, Coming, Africa

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.
Thabo Mbeki

Live, Black, Africa

Many of our soldiers are stationed at Camp Coyote just south of the Iraqi border. This is how you know we have a strong army, when you can actually tell your enemy exactly where your camp is and what its name is.
Jon Stewart

Strong, Enemy, Tell

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.
Miriam Makeba

Truth, Political, Wrong

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
William Lloyd Garrison

Death, Hell, Between

I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.
Kim Y. Sam

Sorry, Two, Whole

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.
Margaret Walker

Between, Song, Body

Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegetable without a little ham hock.
Paula Deen

Down, Somewhere, Hidden

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.
Charles Kuralt

Age, Time, Morning

I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned.
Robert Pattinson

Thought, Play, Old

No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.
Henry Louis Gates

Black, Together, City

When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.
Diablo Cody

School, Small, Kid

Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.
David Wilkerson

Teen, America, Challenge

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
Oliver Tambo

Work, Peace, Live

It seems that half the point of being in Miami Beach - particularly the northern end of South Beach - is to be observed by people-watchers like me, and the display along Ocean Drive during my visit was, as always, sublime.
Susan Orlean

End, Point, Ocean

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?
Joni Mitchell

Happiness, Understand, Why

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.
George McGovern

Good, Thought, Old

I met my wife in South Dakota.
George McGovern

Wife, Dakota, Met

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.
Joe Slovo

Done, Racism, Matter

John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.
Norodom Sihanouk

Place, State, Argument

When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.
George McGovern

War, Debt, Growing

As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city's South Side, back in 2005.
Thomas Frank

Leader, Off, Nation

I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.
William J. Clinton

Work, Done, Together

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi

History, Destiny, Language

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.
Henry Clay

Said, Heard, West

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.
Mary Steenburgen

Southern, Resonates

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
Jules Verne

Great, Everybody, Knows

You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.
Hillary Scott

Good, Pretty, Put

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