"It is better to protest than to accept injustice."

-- Rosa Parks

#Justice Quotes #Injustice Quotes #Accepting Quotes

“My hair is always a big topic. It is just hair.”

Source : "Anne Burrell Cooks In Chicago". Interview with Jerry Nunn, chicago.gopride.com. June 28, 2015.
“When others doubt the power of Jesus, be the one who asks Him to perform the impossible. He often will.”
“This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.”
“You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.”
“My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income they billed for her to teach stroke victims in convalescent hospitals to talk again.”
“Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise: And he that lends you pity, is not wise.”
“Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say 'Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus.”

Source : "Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography". Book by Michael Parker, 2009.
“When I speak about the "tyranny of choice," I mean an ideology that originates in the era of post-industrial capitalism. It began with the American Dream - the idea of the self-made man, who works his way up from rags to riches. By and by, this career concept developed into a universal life philosophy. Today we believe we should be able to choose everything: the way we live, the way we look, even when it comes to the coffee we buy, we constantly need to weigh our decision. That is extremely unhealthy.”

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