Creative Quotations from . . .
Carl Rowan
(1925-2000) born on
Aug 11
US columnist, journalist, diplomat. He was appointed ambassador to Finland in 1963 and head of the U.S. Information Agency in 1964; first African American to attend Cabinet meetings.
         
   
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F
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

R
There aren't any embarrassing questions -- only embarrassing answers.
A
A minority group has "arrived" only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
N
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
K
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested on.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: In "American Libraries."
R: The New Yorker, 12/7/1963
A: In "Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes," ed. Deborah Deford, 1997.
N: In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997.
K: "Breaking Barriers."
 

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