"Democracy means far more than the right to vote every five years. It means the right to participate in every aspect of national and community life. The people must believe that they can take part."

-- Michael Manley

#Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes #Years Quotes

“They [Oneida people] didn't want to fix problems one at a time. If someone invited them to a feminist convention, their answer would have been, 'In the new world women will have total equality, so lets spend our energy creating that whole new world.' And to their credit, the women at Oneida probably had far greater practical equality than what any of the women gathered at Seneca Falls experienced in their lifetimes.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I started to write an apology, but I donâ€™t have anything to say Iâ€™m sorry for,”
“Don't expect others to do your work for you.”
“You learn your limitations and then you try to work within them.”
“The real past can traumatize us, but so can the real future.”
“He resisted for a while and there were some legal boundaries, you know, keeping me from being near him or his family, but in the end, love overcame. And I got what I wanted. I always get what I want.”

Source : "Fictional character: Mel". "Flight of the Conchords / New Fans", www.imdb.com. 2007.
“If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.”
“I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.”

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