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Just Dave “The Fourth of July”

By Darlene Mitchell July 5, 2021 July 5, 2021 Update

THE JUST DAVE SHOW “The Fourth of July”

The Just Dave Show “The Fourth of July”

Dave’s back at it again. Ranting and raving to the roof tops. Today it has something to do with patriots and flags and the correct size for pick up trucks. Happy Fourth of July!

“Fourth of July” X

By Darlene Mitchell July 5, 2021 July 5, 2021 Arts & Entertainment, Jukebox Choice, Music, Videos

“FOURTH OF JULY” X

“Fourth of July” X

On this long holiday weekend Dave Shadrick from the “The Just Dave Show” suggested we highlight “The Fourth of July” by X. It’s a bit sad, but it’s supposed to be. So, grab your hankies ladies, here’s the Jukebox Choice of the Day, “The Fourth of July”.

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THE JUST DAVE SHOW “The Fourth of July”

The Just Dave Show “The Fourth of July”

“FOURTH OF JULY” X

“Fourth of July” X

“I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness that surrounds me.” Sojourner Truth

“No god would want a child killed in his name.” D.S. Mitchell 2023

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” Booker T. Washington

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Chasing The Spider by D.S. Mitchell

“I want to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.” Arthur Ashe

“If people stopped searching for things that offended them and started looking for things that inspired them; what a wonderful world this would be.” Night Owl

“Worry is a waste of valuable time.” D. S. Mitchell 2015

“My favorite old car had no reverse gear. It taught me I could only go forward.” Flavia

“The rain falls because the cloud can no longer handle the weight. The tears fall because the heart can no longer handle the pain.” The Wise You

“Education is the most powerful weapon which we can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela

“My art is my heart.” D. S. Mitchell 2015

“Sometimes when challenged we find out we are capable of the unthinkable.” D. S. Mitchell 2022

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret between the shadow and soul.” Pablo Neruda

“If now isn’t a good time for the truth I don’t see when we’ll get to it.” Nikki Giovanni

“Let my old days be my best days,” Cousin Lucille

“Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the reason is that you are stupid and make bad decisions.” Your mother

“Surround yourself with those on the same mission as you.” Anonymous

“I wonder, if you were blind, lost and confused, would you care what color the offered hand?” D. S. Mitchell 2015

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” Christian Grey

“Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.” Arthur Rubenstein

“To be happy and contented, count your blessings, not your cash.” Chinese Proverb

RIP RBG

“Studying American politics has taught me several disgusting lessons, the first being, money buys friends in Congress. That alone should terrify the American public.” D. S. Mitchell 2021

“Those who think they can control the mob are fools and are often the victims of their own incitement.” D.S. Mitchell 2021

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.” – James Branch Cabell

“I don’t need to attend every argument I’m invited to.” Unknown

“Voting is like a prayer.” Raphael Warnock 2021

Smile

“We are all valuable. The problem is not everyone is smart enough to realize it.” D. S. Mitchell 2021

“Outer beauty attracts but inner beauty captivates.” Kate Angell

“Dimming the lights will not hide the social injustice in America.” D. S. Mitchell 2017

“Silence in front of savagery is savagery itself.” Abhijit Naskar

“We can never be too busy to be kind.” D. S. Mitchell 2017

“We only fail when we fail to try.” Rosa Parks

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” T. S. Eliot

“Every lie is like stepping in a quicksand pit. Every lie as dangerous, as telling the truth.” D. S. Mitchell 2020

“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” Charles Dickens

“Thoughtful people are slow to anger, not necessarily less efficient in their killing.” D. S. Mitchell 2019

“Endings are not always bad. Most times they’re just beginnings in disguise.” Kim Harrison

“The United States like so many countries around the world has chosen to give to the few and deny the many.” D.S. Mitchell 2020

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. This is true, its called life.” Terry Pratchett

“Law without humanity is injustice.” D. S. Mitchell 2020

“When people start acting as though the past is the same as the present and context doesn’t matter, things start to get dangerous.” Trevor K. McNeil 2020

“Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good.” – Benjamin Franklin

“In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.” James Madison

“Anger helps straighten out a problem like a fan helps straighten out a pile of papers.” Susan Marcotte

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill

“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” ― Bruce Lee

“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” Thomas Jefferson

“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” Albert Einstein

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The 7 Social Sins are: Wealth without Work; Pleasure without Conscience; Knowledge without Character; Commerce without Morality; Science without Humanity; Worship without Sacrifice; Politics without Principle.” Frederick Lewis Donaldson

“Trickle down economics is like having three dogs and giving one of them a hot dog, and thinking he’ll share.” Bill Maher

“All evils are equal when they are extreme.”-Pierre Corneille

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” John F. Kennedy

“People without vaginas shouldn’t be able to regulate them.” Unknown

“Let’s just remember that social security is not the government’s money, it belongs to the people who had it taken out of the checks involuntarily their entire working lives.” Mike Huckabee

“Be sure to put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” Abraham Lincoln

“I have insecurities of course, but I don’t hang out with anyone who points them out to me.” ADELE

“I have been far oftener discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.” Shirley Chisholm 5/21/1969

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” John Kenneth Galbraith

“Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.” ― George Burns

“What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.” Edward Langley, artist

“The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.” ― George Washington

“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty.” ― Albert Einstein

“So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

“A politician thinks of the next election – a statesman of the next generation.” – James Freeman Clarke

“Imagination is the bridge between the things we know for sure, and the things we need to believe, when our world becomes unbearable.” Staceyann Chin

“Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.” Coretta Scott King

“Inspiration descends only in flashes to clothe circumstances; it is not stored up in a barrel, like salt herrings to be doled out.”Patrick White

“Without music, life would be a mistake.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.” Doug Larson

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.” ― Nelson Mandela