Patsy Mink famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The problem with our education system is not that parents do not have a choice. The problem is that inequities continue to exist.
-- Patsy Mink

#Justice #Parent #Choices
We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal experiences ... to make sure that others ... do not have to suffer the same discrimination.
-- Patsy Mink

#Country #Racism #Suffering
It is easy enough to vote right and be consistently with the majority. But it is more often more important to be ahead of the majority and this means being willing to cut the first furrow in the ground and stand alone for a while if necessary.
-- Patsy Mink

#Mean #Cutting #Important

Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.
A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.
The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.
I was a wonderful parent before I had children.
I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs. Then I had three of my own.
Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.

Patsy Mink famous quotes

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