#Growing Up Quotes #Justice Quotes #Growing Quotes
“For the three decades after WWII, incomes grew at about 3 percent a year for people up and down the income ladder, but since then most income growth has occurred among the top quintile. And among that group, most of the income growth has occurred among the top 5 percent. The pattern repeats itself all the way up. Most of the growth among the top 5 percent has been among the top 1 percent, and most of the growth among that group has been among the top one-tenth of one percent.”
Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.”
“I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.”
“Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.”
“I am the father of a 9 year-old son whose descent into the world of autism began at the age of 7 months old after receiving numerous vaccinations in a single day; the same story that is told by thousands of other parents of children throughout the country whose healthy, normally developing children have become autistic after vaccinations.”
“I've figured out that I don't want to spend all of my spare time trying to make money. But, with things like fame or internet presence - things you cannot cash in at the bank - there is still a sense that more is better and that your career should be following a certain trajectory.”
Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Safety is always a paramount concern for us.”
Source : Source: deadline.com
“We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay Poet
Gwendolyn Brooks Poet
James A. Baldwin Novelist
Langston Hughes Poet
Maya Angelou Author
Rita Dove Poet
Rosa Parks Activist
Sonia Sanchez Poet
Zora Neale Hurston Anthropologist
