"Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41)"

-- Stephen Dobyns

#Attention Quotes #Helping Quotes #Miserable Quotes

“I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild democracy as a living democracy. The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people. They have no loyalty to anything apart from their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit â€” profits extracted at the cost of life.”

Source : "Making the connection". www.share-international.org. June 2011.
“America is the only country in the world that classifies as Negro any person who has one drop of African blood in his or her veins.”
“Mighty rivers can easily be leaped at their source.”
“Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.”
“Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and operated in a more thoughtful and organized fashion? Absolutely. But when you look at history that's been the exception rather than the norm.”
“I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog.”
“I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.”
“It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.”

Source : Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137, 178, 1803.

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