"We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal experiences ... to make sure that others ... do not have to suffer the same discrimination."

-- Patsy Mink

#Country Quotes #Racism Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.”
“We say the rarajipari is the game of life, ' Angel said. 'You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.”
“In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.”
“There was something irresistible about popcorn.”

Source : Elizabeth George Speare (1958). “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all”
“I never thought it was right to call up a man and try him because he erred in doctrine, it looks too much like methodism and not like Latter day Saintism. Methodists have creeds which a man must believe or be kicked out of their church. I want the liberty of believing as I please, it feels so good not to be tramelled.”
“The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.”
“If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.”

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