"I have a lifelong devotion to public service."

-- Caroline Kennedy

#Devotion Quotes #Public Service Quotes #Lifelong Quotes

“I don't watch much TV at all.”
“I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as the subject of American Indians comes up, because they know fully well, perhaps not in a fully articulated, conscious form, but they know fully well that the basis for the very system of endeavor and enterprise and profitability to which they are committed and devoted accrues on the basis of theft of the resources of someone else. They are in possession of stolen property. They know it. They all know it. It's a dishonest endeavor from day one.”

Source : Z Magazine, vol. 8, p. 32,
“Forgiveness is the most important thing. We all have to forgive what was done to us - the Irish people have to forgive. The African people. The Jewish people. We all have to forgive and understand the only way to stop the cycle of hate and abuse is not to allow yourself to get caught in it.”
“The Sage embraces similarity of understanding and pays no regard to similarity of form. The world in general is attracted by similarity of form, but remains indifferent to similarity of understanding.”
“I desire Virtue, though I love her not- I have no faith in her when she is got: I fear that she will bind and make me slave And send me songless to the sullen grave.”

Source : Anna Wickham (1971). “Selected poems”, Chatto & Windus
“You can't leave civilization behind entirely.”
“Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.”
“The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on them, and to circumscribe them in direct proportion to how stringently the population is controlled.”

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