"With all of the talk about polling and demographics, I think too many people have lost touch with the human and moral crisis of deportations. Every day, roughly 1,000 people are deported because the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives is denying the majority of the US Congress a chance to vote on citizenship. I will be arrested today because the labor movement stands with the families tragically ripped apart by John Boehner and the House Republicansâ€™ embrace of a broken immigration system."

-- Arlene Holt Baker

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Broken Quotes

“In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.”
“That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.”
“My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.”
“People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment.”
“I want to preach the gospel so plainly that men can come from the factories and not have to bring along a dictionary.”

Source : Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”
“I don't put together cars, I put together people.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
“First, the American legislative process isn't well suited to large and complex measures.”
“I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.”

Source : FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Jul 06, 2015

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