David Price famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.
-- David Price

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I have also come to understand Congress' need for a bipartisan as well as a partisan capacity.
-- David Price

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The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.
-- David Price

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We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities.
-- David Price

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What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
-- David Price

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Personal faith can be a powerful force for public good.
-- David Price

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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.
Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.
I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".
He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look facts in the face and to seek flexible solutions, respect for others, give-and-take in dialog situations, absence of hypocrisy, a complete absence of grandeur in the conduct of his personal life. He has never been driven by blind self-assertion to make absurd decisions.

David Price famous quotes

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