"I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due to homelessness and I've always said I hold him responsible for that."

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Source : "Layton Slams Martin Over Deaths of Homeless". www.theglobeandmail.com. May 27, 2004.

Jack Layton

#Country Quotes #Believe Quotes #Affordable Housing Quotes

“I got my degree in rhetoric.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I used to work for Reverend Jesse Jackson he would say, "You've got to know the rules in order to break the rules." The 1988 campaign of Reverend Jesse Jackson made fundamental changes to the way Democrats do business.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.”

Source : Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.128, Knopf
“I want to do something, right here, right now, to shame them, to make them accountable, to show the Capitol that whatever they do or force us to do there is a part of every tribute they can't own. That Rue was more than a piece in their Games. And so am I.”
“There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scornâ€”there are three remaining fingers pointing right back at you.”
“Work hard for what you want in life.”
“Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.”

Source : Khawaja Abdur Rahim, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1968). “Iqbal, the poet of tomorrow”
“Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.”

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