"I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me."

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Source : "Term 'states' rights' heard anew in election cycle" by Allen G. Breed, www.foxnews.com. January 26, 2012.

John Shelton Reed

#Believe Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Rights Quotes

“It's not logical that we boast the most advanced and powerful internationally integrated economy in the world, then claim organizational incompetence and poverty when it comes to creating and funding a national health care system for all Americans.”
“O, Heart, remember thee That Man is none, Save One.”

Source : Coventry Patmore (1906). “Poems: The unknown eros, Amelia, etc”
“The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.”
“For people who live in the imagination, there is no lack of subjects. To seek for the exact moment at which inspiration comes is false. Imagination floods us with suggestions all the time, from all directions.”
“It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.”
“Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.”
“Policy makers have plainly failed both here in the United States and in Europe as well. People who have suffered because of that. And when they say, "Throw out economists, we don't trust economists anymore," you can totally understand why.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“In three strides Reaver was on her, his mouth crushing hers. â€œNo more bullshit,â€ he said against her lips. â€œI want you. I think Iâ€™ve always wanted you.”

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