"It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens."

-- Pearl S. Buck

#America Quotes #Justice Quotes #Healthy Quotes

“We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders, and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly, many of our elites want no part of it.”

Source : "Spurning America" by Michael Barone, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 17, 2005.
“What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.”
“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”
“The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have dead men preaching to them. How can dead men beget living children?”
“I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.”
“Because I'm little, I think the audience likes me.”
“There arent many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called Horned Pigeon. He had been on the run and hadnt eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.”
“Some men are like oak leaves -- they don't know when they're dead, but still hang right on; and there are others who let go before anything has really touched them.”

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