"As I traveled around the country, I met hundreds if not thousands of people who want to change the country. And you've got, now, 1,900 Bernie delegates who are now going back to their communities in 50 states."

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Source : "A Look At Where Bernie Sanders' Movement Goes From Here". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 30, 2016.

Jonathan Tasini

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Community Quotes

“Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. â€œFoolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?”
“If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.”
“Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead”
“There's the idea that you have to know how to solve the world's problems in order to feel that something is morally wrong. I'm always back and forth between optimism and depression about the situation.”
“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”
“When you do the right thing, enjoy it! When you take positive actions, enjoy them. After all, they are leading you toward positive results. Pat yourself on the back. Truly enjoy the fact that you're making positive progress, and the negative temptations will have no power over you.”
“No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.”
“The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.”

Source : Rae Armantrout (2009). “Versed”, p.70, Wesleyan University Press

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