"I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting."

-- Maynard Jackson

#Kings Quotes #Hero Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Everybody has someone in their life that has breast cancer. It touches femininity, motherhood and sexuality and as Barbara Brenner says in the film, "you get to say breast out loud in public." Big corporations know this and market in a particular way knowing that women make most of the buying decisions in a household.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.”
“You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.”
“I try not to look back too much, but sometimes it's nice to reflect.”
“If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.”
“Statism ends with an eye roll.”
“I know, I say, after he says, This is hard, for the third time. This is what happens when you have a TRM, I tell him. You make a mess. It's okay. You just have to try harder next time. I am trying hard, Dad says. I know. You get a sticker. Thank you. Okay. You get another sticker for being polite.”

Source : Kathryn Erskine (2010). “Mockingbird”, p.84, Penguin
“We have pledged to be the greenest government ever. We must lead by example...We are not asking others to do things we will not do ourselves.”

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