"Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them."

-- Shirley Chisholm

#Ignorance Quotes #Home Quotes #Political Quotes

“If you've only had one relationship, how do you know you're good in bed?”
“Net neutrality would require that every search engine produce an equal number of results that satisfy every disagreement about [every] issue.... Just think of it as Fairness Doctrine for the Internet. I'm not making this up.”
“I do laugh when I hear myself saying, 'I am a ventriloquist.' I am definitely suited to it, though. I took it and ran with it quite hungrily. It is not for everyone, but it is just the chance to write for a character.”
“The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was!”
“Iâ€™m definitely a feminist & proud of it.”
“Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.”
“Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Jun 20, 2011
“Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.”

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