"There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them."

-- Eleanor Smeal

#Fighting Quotes #Rights Quotes #People Quotes

“Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits”
“Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.”

Source : John Shelby Spong (1991). “Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks the Meaning of Scripture”, HarperOne
“I think one of the things about parents and children is there are the accidents of temperament. There's no guarantee that just because you are related you'll have anything in common.”
“Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.”
“When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.”

Source : Rosellen Brown (1998). “Civil Wars”, Delta
“And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.”
“The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse.”
“The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky.”

Source : Elizabeth Oakes SMITH, John KEESE (of Newburyport, Mass.) (1843). “The Sinless Child, and Other Poems. Edited by J. Keese”, p.66

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