"I don't think much about the issues after they come out. I like it when people like them. Often, when people have criticisms, I find myself agreeing with them. I think some issues are stronger than others. I hope we're getting a little bit better, overall, issue by issue."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Lorin Stein

#Thinking Quotes #Issues Quotes #People Quotes

“There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in housing discrimination, labor discrimination. He decided to take as a client a member of the Ku Klux Klan because the state wanted to get the membership lists of the Klan to find out if they could get something on the Klan. And he said, `I got to take you. I despise you. But we, the NAACP, won that case; NAACP vs. Alabama in the 1950s. Nobody has the right to get your membership lists.' He was fired from the NAACP. To me, he's a hero.”

Source : Source: thedailyhatch.org
“The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.”
“I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain peopleâ€¦. As one who believes in freedom and democracy for all, I honor the Red nation.”
“It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.”
“The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that they can give what they have not received, a thing which cannot be otherwise acquired.”
“For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”
“Land really is the best art.”
“If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?”

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