"Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk"

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Source : NEA Journal: The Journal of the National Education Association‎, Volume 41 (p. 300), 1952.

Margaret Chase Smith

#Country Quotes #Mind Quotes #Moral Quotes

“Giving the reader the space to move around and be active, and encourage their active response is important to me. That will connect the reader more to the text.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Jazz is like blues with a shot of heroin!”
“We wrote our first blog post before we wrote our first line of code.”
“I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.”
“You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.”
“Prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichÃ©s about women's sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little more than walking masturbation aids, things to be DONE TO, things so sensually null and void that they have to be paid to indulge in fornication, that women can be had, bought, as often as not sold from one man to another. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.”

Source : "Damaged Gods: Cults and Heroes Reappraised". Book by Julie Burchill, 1986.
“The center of the universe is everywhere.”
“... I suppose that the party or sect which is to do any work in the world must breathe its own peculiar atmosphere, speak its own little patois, and see but one side of the question on which it fights.”

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