A Quote by Shelby Steele

It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.

Shelby Steele

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Begin Blacks Fighting Identity Opportunity Peacetime Seizing Shift Time Wartime

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Shelby Steele
American - Author
Born: January 1, 1946

Too many?pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.

Harry S. Truman

Peacetime Special Forces are different than wartime Special Forces. And I'm just not sure I was born to be in peace time.

Tim Kennedy

Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

Edmund H. North

Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a lack of a public outrage.

Zainab Salbi

Now we have blacks and whites fighting, reds and yellows fighting, Democrats and Republicans fighting, men and women fighting.

Roy Moore

There's peacetime and there's wartime, and you don't need polarization on wartime issues. You need polarization on all other issues.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success

Austin Phelps

2006 Games -by then, my identity had started to shift. Before that, my identity was in snowboarding. That's how people knew me and that's how I knew myself. That's where I got a lot of my self worth. That began to shift and I started to understand that I didn't get my worth from people or from the things that I did. It was from Christ. If I hadn't had that shift in my life, I think my world would have come crumbling down.

Kelly Clark

The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or a Christian, I think that's such a limited way of seeing humanity, and schools have the opportunity to bring out the fact that we have hundreds of identities. We have our national identity. We have our cultural identity, linguistic identity, religious identity. Yes, cultural identity, professional identity, all kinds of ways.

Amartya Sen

I think seizing the opportunity and making the most of your time is very important, and loving life.

Bindi Irwin

Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss.

Sharon Gannon

There's a big difference between seeing an opportunity and seizing an opportunity

Jim Moore

I feel that the constitution is workable, it is flexible and it is strong enough to hold the country together both in peacetime and in wartime. Indeed, if I may say so, if things go wrong under the new Constitution, the reason will not be that we had a bad Constitution. What we will have to say is that Man was vile.

B. R. Ambedkar

Broad access to opportunity is the key to a truly equitable America. No matter who you are or where you grew up, Black Faces in White Places provides a blueprint to seizing opportunities at hand - and expanding opportunity for your entire community.