"There is a lack of interest in voting in the United States, and that troubles me. It is very necessary that people get registered, study the issues and be aware of the politics of our country. We will really be set back if people don't take the time to learn about the candidates who are concerned about the well-being of all the citizens and vote."

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Source : Source: www.sfgate.com

Rosa Parks

#Country Quotes #Issues Quotes #People Quotes

“I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you tell 'em you want somebody else?”
“Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.”
“I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.”
“Culture is everything you don't have to do.”

Source : Interview with Steven Johnson, howwegettonext.com. December 18, 2015.
“Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes”
“This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.”
“George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.”
“The problem is that the things demanded by an empire, which is staying power, ruthlessness, the ability and the willingness to use its power around the world, it's something that democracies tend to be quite skeptical about.”

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