"I'm an optimistic guy.It's just as much the case that people will come to me and ask my opinion about how to properly include the Muslim community, as it is that people will come with some hateful stuff too. When people come to me about my religion, it's not always a thing of "we don't want people like you here," which happens sometimes. But mostly it's people who would like to know more. I get a chance to help people understand the religion better."

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Source : Source: harvardpolitics.com

Keith Ellison

#Optimistic Quotes #People Quotes #Community Quotes

“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”
“Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.”

Source : Richard Mühlberger, Charles Webster Hawthorne (1999). “Charles Webster Hawthorne”, University of Washington Press
“The mountains were there and so was I.”

Source : 1952 His reason for becoming a mountain climber. Quoted in Annapurna: Conquest of the First 8000-metre Peak (1952, translated by Nea Morin and Janet Adam Smith).
“I'm a small-town guy, and moving to a huge city might be an adjustment.”
“Yes, gay marriage is about symbolically blessing a relationship, but the larger issue is about transmitting a fundamental message about equality. Gay people should have equality in law everywhere.”
“Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw off the branch they are sitting on.”
“I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“The aim of education is to guide young persons in the process through which they shape themselves as human persons-armed with knowledge, strength of judgment, and moral virtues-while at the same time conveying to them the spiritual heritage of the nation and the civilization in which they are involved.”

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