"Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render victory indistinguishable from defeat."

-- Rosika Schwimmer

#War Quotes #Men Quotes #Rights Quotes

“When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats.”
“I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.”
“I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!”
“There are lies, damned lies and statistics.”
“Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.”
“It's dangerous faith in our untamed Savior that leads us to the joy we crave.”
“The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.”

Source : William Rawle (1829). “A view of the Constitution of the United States of America”, p.125
“Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.”

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