"Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers."

-- Mother Jones

#Children Quotes #Two Quotes #White Quotes

“The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up.”
“I'm interested in seeing films that confront me with new things, with films that make me question myself, with films that help me to reflect on subjects that I hadn't thought about before, films that help me progress and advance.”
“But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.”
“There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism”

Source : Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.55
“I've been listening to quite a lot of classical music like Erik Satie, and quite a lot of blues.”

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“Whatever happens, I will not let my cheerfulness be disturbed. Being unhappy won't get me anywhere and will dissipate all my goodness. Why be unhappy about something if you can change it? And if you can't, how will being unhappy help?”
“The accountability rests with me.”
“The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the happiness and aggrandizement of one, or a few, and to this the public felicity, and every other interest must submit.”

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