"Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them."

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Marian Wright Edelman

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“The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.”
“To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing to purchase the flesh, milk, and eggs of horribly abused animals exposes a disconnect that is so fundamental that it renders our efforts absurd, hypocritical, and doomed to certain failure.”

Source : Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.197, Lantern Books
“One thing we said as an offense is we want to start games fast ... we want the other team to play catch-up to us.”
“The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language.”

Source : Jefferson Davis (1971). “The rise and fall of the Confederate Government”, Peter Smith Pub Inc
“The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.”
“I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer. I am none of these; I'm a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual.”
“Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.”

Source : "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.
“Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.”

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