"Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And thinking about phasing it into a class-based entitlement program may at long last bring Americans around to a consideration of the growing inequality that threatens the harmony of our democracy far more than the alarmist cry of 'racial division.'"

-- Orlando Patterson

#Thinking Quotes #Class Quotes #Long Quotes

“A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.”
“Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.”
“If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.”
“The Kennedy home was a place of much action and laughter, a lively, brawling mob of children overseen by a mother who knew when to look the other way.”

Source : James David Barber (1992). “The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House”
“I don't know what 'my way' is. Everybody keeps telling me I got all these things. I read the other day where I had magical powers. I told everybody in the chapel 'zap, zap, zap, zap!' I said 'Where's my magical powers at?' Well, you can't believe what you read in the press. I ain't got no magical powers or mystical trips or anything like that. It's kind of silly.”
“No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.”
“A person who does not have stability of mind is an unstable dinghy. In this struggle of life, I will confront all the challenges with truth and strength, and will never waver. Cowardliness is an eveil which I should banish from my life.”

Source : "My Twenty-One Years in the Fiji Islands". Book by Totaram Sanadhya, 1991.
“Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.”

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