"When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Bayard Rustin

#Society Quotes #Dignity Quotes #Human Rights Quotes

“Thomas Stanley has not only found no correlation between success in school and an ability to accumulate wealth, he's actually found a negative correlation. 'It seems that school-related evaluations are poor predictors of economic success,' Stanley concluded. What did predict success was a willingness to take risks. Yet the success-failure standards of most schools penalized risk takers. Most educational systems reward those who play it safe. As a result, those who do well in school find it hard to take risks later on.”
“God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.”
“I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?”

Source : Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
“History belongs to she who holds the pen...If we don't tell our stories, they won't be told.”
“The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.”
“I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.”

Source : "Q&A: Lincoln Chafee". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. September/October, 2008.
“I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.”
“Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.”

Source : "We don't want a gravy train for the well-connected few" by Jimmy Reid, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 1999.

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