Alvin Francis Poussaint famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.
-- Alvin Francis Poussaint

#Government #Law #Land
Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In midlife, Dad may experience his second "fatherhood" as a grandparent.
-- Alvin Francis Poussaint

#Children #Dad #Father
Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them and even indulge them in ways that they did not indulge their own children. Grandfather knows that after the fun and games are over with his adorable grandchildren he can return to the quiet of his own home and peacefully reflect on this phenomenon of fatherhood.
-- Alvin Francis Poussaint

#Fun #Children #Home

Public opinion in this country is everything.
Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
Zionism is nothing more, but also nothing less, than the Jewish People's sense of origin and destination in the Land linked eternally with its name. It is also the instrument whereby the Jewish Nation seeks an authentic fulfillment of itself.
I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.
The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.
You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy.

Alvin Francis Poussaint famous quotes

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