"What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity."

-- Toni Cade Bambara

#Discipline Quotes #Greed Quotes #Unity Quotes

“... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other" revolutions (the American revolution being considered unique and somehow unrepeatable anywhere else in the world) have remained constant, have dictated, have obscured, the realities of empire, while apologists for overseas American interests have insisted on American innocence, doing good, fighting for freedom.”
“But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.”
“I'm enjoying where I'm at in my life and I feel like I'm learning a lot on a daily basis. I'm learning without having to be behind a desk, so it's a pretty cool place to be.”

Source : "Zac Efron and Corbin Bleu Dish on High School Musical 3: Senior Year". movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.
“I neither look up to the rich or down to the poor.”
“Some people are all quality; you would think they are made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good nature or good manners.”
“We all have reasons for moving. I move to keep things whole.”
“When we are in a situation where Jesus is all we have, we soon discover He is all we really need.”

Source : Gigi Graham Tchividjian (2000). “Weatherproof Your Heart”, Spire
“For it is in giving that we receive.”

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