"America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity ..."

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Source : Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.106, Take Root Media

Shirley Chisholm

#Heart Quotes #Law Quotes #America Quotes

“What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love.”
“Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.”

Source : "Laurieann Gibson: 'We've Created a New Jerusalem' With Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video". Interview with Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 10, 2011.
“If the models are as flawed as critics say you have to ask yourself, 'How come they work?'”
“I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.”
“Government is just spending too much money.”
“I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.”
“Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'”
“We have learned the answers, all the answers: it is the question that we do not know.”

Source : 1928 'The Hamlet of A. MacLeish'.

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