"I had never before seen my friends come in beaten, their heads laid open, their noses broken, or seen them jailed for peaceably demonstrating that they wanted work. I had only known how workers lived. Now I was face to face with what our society did to workers who could get no work."

-- Mary Heaton Vorse

#Broken Quotes #Noses Quotes #Our Society Quotes

“My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs.”
“It's no use to decide what's going to happen unless you have the courage of your convictions. Many a brilliant idea has been lost because the man who dreamed it lacked the spunk of the spine to put it across.”
“Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.”
“If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.”
“Deprivation is the mother of poetry.”
“Maybe you're not even in a position to really judge how good your kid is at that endeavor.”
“The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.”
“Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.”

Source : James Agate (1944). “Ego 6: Once More the Autobiography of James Agate”

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