"If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs."

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Source : Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

Millicent Fenwick

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“I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals as understood by us today.”
“If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?”
“Do not speak defeat, speak victory.”
“I would like to see a law legalising women's shelters in Iraq. I would like to see our radio being opened again as a result of the pressure that we're putting on the governmental body that could allow this.”
“[Buckminster Fuller] could do four, five hours straight where some people would leave, eat, get a snooze and come back and he's still going. He was like a fireplug.”
“Remember not all Germans were Nazis.”

Source : The Freedom Writers, Erin Gruwell (2007). “The Freedom Writers Diary (Movie Tie-in Edition): How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them”, p.53, Broadway Books
“I've always been surprised when a straight guy likes me. It's just been like my whole life has been kinda like that. I definitely felt like when I started writing music, it wasn't writing for a gay audience at all. I was just writing for me. But what I say whenever I get this question is my best friends have always been gay, I've always been, as a person, just accepted by the gay community, and celebrated and had the best nights of my life at gay clubs. Always had a fashion sense usually with drag and I don't know. That's just kind of my people. That's just kind of where I fit in.”

Source : Source: www.billboard.com

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