Inspirational Quotes by Carl Rowan (American Journalist)

There aren’t any embarrassing questions—just embarrassing answers.
—Carl Rowan
Topics: Questioning

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.
—Carl Rowan
Topics: Change

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
—Carl Rowan
Topics: Learning, Libraries

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.
—Carl Rowan
Topics: Diplomacy

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
—Carl Rowan
Topics: Oppression

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
—Carl Rowan
Topics: Action

A minority group has “arrived” only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
—Carl Rowan
Topics: Prejudice

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