"That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty."

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Source : "What I've Learned: Senator Dick Lugar (R, Ind.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 21, 2010.

Richard Lugar

#Children Quotes #School Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“Teach Scouts not how to get a living, but how to live.”
“Alaska itself is an unusual state.”
“Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.”

Source : Naomi Shihab Nye (2010). “Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25”, p.28, Harper Collins
“There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no mistake that we abolished institutional racism in this country around the same time. The easy thing to do is lay low, but then are we who we say we are? Do we actually stand for anything, if what we do stand for is under attack and we say nothing? There is nothing to be ashamed of here except to allow a radical and recessive group of people to bully and intimidate our mothers and sisters and daughters for exercising their right of choice.”
“We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.”

Source : El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”
“My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.”
“How can we expect wild animals to survive if we give them nowhere in the wild to live?”
“If you knew how meat was made, youd probably lose your lunch.”

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