"The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about."

-- Marian Wright Edelman

#Justice Quotes #Independence Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Visualize yourself confronted with the task of killing, one after the other, a cabbage, a fly, a fish, a lizard, a guinea pig, a cat, a dog, a monkey and a baby chimpanzee. In the unlikely case that you should experience no greater inhibitions in killing the chimpanzee than in destroying the cabbage or the fly, my advice to you is to commit suicide at your earliest possible convenience, because you are a weird monstrosity and a public danger.”
“If your opponent has an exposed king it is frequently worth sacrificing a pawn to be able to bring your rooks into the game, especially if your opponent's rooks are languishing in the corner. Kasparov has made a career out of such sacrifices.”
“The America's Cup, yachting's great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel.”
“I am not the kind of girl that gets in trouble.”
“That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.”
“All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.”
“I was gung-ho, no question about that.”
“Now, Social Security through the years, for many many people, has been a terrible investment. It's really a tax, that's all it is. Social Security is a tax.”

Source : "GOP Rep. Todd Akin On Social Security: ‘I Don’t Like It’". CSPAN Interview, thinkprogress.org. March 19, 2011.

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