"We started out covering income inequality in the magazine [Mother Jones], but that ongoing body of work positioned - and sourced - us well to put both Occupy and the 47 percent in context."

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Source : Source: www.politico.com

Clara Jeffery

#Mother Quotes #Body Quotes #Covering Quotes

“Every actor is different so you cannot become best friends on Day One. You just have to learn to know each other.”
“We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?”
“It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, and recover the use of our legs, and get up early enough to see the sun rise. However, it has needed one: which is about the severest criticism our civilization could have.”

Source : "Mrs. Miniver".
“I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would like take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.”
“A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.”

Source : "Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism".
“Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?”

Source : "'NSYNC's Lance Bass reveals he's gay: 'I'm not ashamed ... I don't think it's wrong'" by Jennifer Vineyard, www.mtv.com. July 26, 2006.
“I've suffered from low self-esteem.”
“In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.”

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