"Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High school dropout issues. But because of the flow of events which involve the racial component, we've sometimes confused racial issues with other issues which are trans-racial."

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David Brooks

#Confused Quotes #School Quotes #White Quotes

“The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward. All wheeled vehicles sink up to their axles in the slime. Even tractors can only move with great difficulty. A large portion of our heavy artillery was soon stuck fast... The strain that all this caused our already exhausted troops can perhaps be imagined.”
“My other car is a vehicle with a bumper sticker describing this car.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 25, 2013
“I never think too far into the future. I'm too busy thinking about tomorrow's news.”
“Even if people aren't Republicans, it doesn't seem shocking to them that Ronald Reagan was the president. Well of course, because Arnold Schwarzenegger was the governor! This is not only a bar too low, this is no bar at all. I don't care who you are, you know 20 people smarter than Ronald Reagan. You know 20 people who would be a better president than Ronald Reagan.”
“Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.”

Source : Sylvia Townsend Warner, Claire Harman (1994). “The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Virago Pr
“I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!”
“What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.”
“There is physical evidence of the body's response to doing good. Endorphins are released in the brain when you do something for someone else. Doing good really feels good.”

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