"You have to have a multipronged approach and a significant part of that is educating the public and change the culture so that people are less afraid of Arabs or Muslims, more attuned to civil rights and civil liberties issues that are presented, more aware of the security costs of some of the kinds of choices the Bush administration had made, and more committed to the values that America was founded upon."

-- David D. Cole

#People Quotes #Choices Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“As the acceptance of democracy brings a certain life-giving power, so it has its own sanctions and comforts. Perhaps the most obvious one is the curious sense which comes to us from time to time, that we belong to the whole, that a certain basic well being can never be taken away from us whatever the turn of fortune.”
“The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.”
“It used to be a common saying of Myson's that men ought not to seek for things in words, but for words in things; for that things are not made on account of words but that words are put together for the sake of things.”
“Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.”
“Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years.”
“While alcohol ... continues to wreak havoc in America, supported by a $6 billion-a-year alcohol industry advertising campaign extolling the joy of inebriation, the far less harmful drug of ***** remains illegal and continues to ruin people's lives - only if they are caught possessing and convicted of that crime.”
“Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.”
“I've seen it around the world, in the poorest countries and in countries riven with conflict, It is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty, breaking out of stagnation. It's women who can contribute to achieving real security - not bombs and bullets and repressive governments.”

Source : "Then & Now: Queen Noor", www.cnn.com. August 22, 2005.

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