"I've always tried to keep in mind that I'm in grass-roots country and I'm grass-roots-born and -reared. I don't use the so-called 'sophisticated approach' to broadcasting that is used in other parts of the country."

-- Jack Brickhouse

#Country Quotes #Roots Quotes #Mind Quotes

“People are afraid of things they don't understand.”
“I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.”
“I would say I started rapping because my friends were doin it.”
“13 to $20 billion a year could be saved in health care costs by demedicalizing childbirth, developing midwifery, and encouraging breastfeeding.”
“If a religion does not teach love, respect, and regard for others, it cannot be the religion of humanity.”
“People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.”
“For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.”

Source : "Prostitution in Vancouver: Violence and the Colonization of First Nations Women". Transcultural Psychiatry 42, article co-written with J. Lynne and A. Cotton, 2005.
“I do not know if the doctrine that the nation-state arose in the 19th century was still being taught:;... but it is erroneous. The nation-state reaches back far into the origins of Europe itself and perhaps beyond. If Europe was not always a Europe of nations, it was always a Europe in which nations existed, and were taken for granted, as a basic form of the State.”

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