"If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation."

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Source : Lincoln Steffens (2012). “The Shame of the Cities”, p.6, Courier Corporation

Lincoln Steffens

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“Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the lives of people who suffer from the disease by raising the profile of MS, as well as raising funds for advocacy and research.”
“When people have problems with their mortgages and jobs many feel they're a failure, they didn't work hard enough or speak well enough: It's their fault things are going so bad. When they see their bodies right there [at occupations], we have something profoundly in common.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.”

Source : "Spy boss warns of terror strike" by Grant Holloway, www.cnn.com. August 13, 2003.
“If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it.”
“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”
“By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light.”
“I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability â€” the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.”
“And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”

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