"We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities."

Source : "Critics slam MSNBC host’s claim that kids belong to community, not parents" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. April 9, 2013.

Melissa Harris-Perry

#Children Quotes #Kids Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche.”
“The first seastead happened fifteen centuries ago. The result was the most beautiful city in the world, Venice. People who were sick of their violent governments fled to the water, where they built civilization on stilts. That startup society - a free city-state on the water - became so successful it dominated the Mediterranean for a thousand years.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.”

Source : James Boswell, Mark Harris (1981). “The heart of Boswell: six journals in one volume”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be loved.”
“The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.”

Source : Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3
“I think you never forget your childhood, whether it was happy or unhappy.”
“The first person I click on can't be the right choice.”

Source : Source: www.etonline.com
“Sometimes you just need to talk to someone who is detached from you. They just listen to what you tell them and you get to form the way that they see you, whereas everyone else in your life already thinks they know what you're dealing with or what you're going through. That's my recommendation for actual anxiety.”

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