"Americans just want us to... not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified... Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here."

-- John Glenn

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“Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.”

Source : Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”
“If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.”
“Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!”

Source : David Mitchell (2008). “Black Swan Green”, p.153, Hachette UK
“At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.”
“What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.”

Source : Dinesh D'Souza (1996). “The End of Racism: Finding Values In An Age Of Technoaffluence”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“I don't see black people as victims even though we are exploited. Victims are flat, one- dimensional characters, someone rolled over by a steamroller so you have a cardboard person. We are far more resilient and more rounded than that. I will go on showing there's more to us than our being victimized. Victims are dead.”
“The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.”
“What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone”

Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.37, Northwestern University Press

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