"Equality means equality for all- no exceptions, no 'yes, buts', no asterisked footnotes imposing limits."

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Source : "On the State of Our Politics - Commencement Message" by Eric Schwartz, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2016.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#Wisdom Quotes #Mean Quotes #Limits Quotes

“I do not think of type as something that should be readable. It should be beautiful.”
“Well,' I shrug, all innocent, 'we all ride our little hobbyhorses, don't we, Mr. Peel?”

Source : L. A. Meyer (2010). “My Bonny Light Horseman: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I feel like people who are guarded and shut off, I feel like they should have to wear a button that says, "shut down", "guarded" or something.”
“Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.”
“I try to manage my time to conserve energy.”

Source : "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". edition.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.
“'Love' has that Kubrick tonality to it, but this is not a Stanley Kubrick movie - there will never be another. At the same time, 'Love' has a modern feel. For example: In one scene, these astronauts go through a wormhole sequence, and you feel like you're being slapped around inside your head by a sonic boom.”
“Beautiful is dangerous.”
“Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a weakening of the martial will, but the syndrome was actually a healthy American reaction to false White House promises of victory, the propping up of corrupt regimes, crony contracting and cover-ups of civilian casualties during the Vietnam War that are echoed today in the news from Baghdad.”

Source : Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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