"...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed."

-- Howard Zinn

#Song Quotes #Blessed Quotes #America Quotes

“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”

Source : Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.117, Lexington Books
“I stay healthy through eating well, working out - simply living a healthy lifestyle.”
“A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.”

Source : "Ashanti’s #nofilter Challenge: Singer Discusses Honey Boo Boo And Her Ideal Death Row Meal", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“When you cheer for the erosion of Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs rights, you're cheering for the erosion of your own.”
“Love me, even if it's a lie. Leave me yet never say goodbye”
“I had forgotten what it was like, to be drawn to a person...I'd forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so that all at once you know what the pull of gravity feels like. and you know that this is something strong and important, something that you need for life, this woman moving through the room.”
“Girls in New York look like giraffes. Long neck, long legs, tiny ***** and ass. Girls from L.A rock over sized shades. And chill all day cause they already paid. Girls in Miami...string bikinis and bump techno by Dj Tiesto. Girls from Detroit like electro And dance all night till they break they neck yo.”
“I'll impose upon you the same arrogance that was imposed on me, and on my mother, my grandmother, my grandmother's mother: all the way back to the first human born of another human being, whether he liked it or not. Probably, if he or she had been allowed to choose, he would have been frightened and answered: No, I don't want to be born. But no one asked their opinion, and so they were born and lived and died after giving birth to another human being who was not asked to choose, and that one did likewise, for millions of years, right down to us.”

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