"Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human.""

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Source : Concerning Women "The Beginnings of Emancipation" (1926)

Suzanne La Follette

#Peace Quotes #Rights Quotes #People Quotes

“Miss Celia stares down into the pot like she's looking for her future. "Are you happy, Minny?" "Why you ask me funny questions like that?" "But are you?" "Course I's happy. You happy too. Big house, big yard, husband looking after you." I frown at Miss Celia and I make sure she can see it. Because ain't that white people for you, wondering if they are happy ENOUGH.”
“The constant need for special waivers is symptomatic of poorly written public policy. It's a signal that the cost of compliance is unreasonably high; the benefits are hard to measure; and either legislators or regulators have failed to do their homework.”
“I loved, loved, loved the fight that I got to do with Matthew Bomer, who plays Bryce, when we did the fight scene that was back to back in the Buy More.”
“I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.”

Source : Giovanni Boccaccio (1972). “The Decameron”, Penguin Books
“For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British people more today than at any point since the Second World War... A child born into a rich family in Britain will almost certainly live and die rich, while a child born into a poor family will almost certainly live and die poor.”

Source : "Britain - a caste society?". JohannHari.com, January 29, 2006.
“Evidence is mounting that faith-based service programs are often more successful than other programs in correcting social problems. [It is wrong] for government to demand that religious nonprofits gut precisely that part of their program [funded through tax dollars] that makes them so effective.”
“Processes of avoiding the world within in order to try to regulate your behavior, or becoming entangled in your thoughts interfering with your ability to take advantage of what's around you, or losing contact with your values for fear that you'll know more about the places where you hurt - those kinds of processes are just normal psychological processes. And if you take the mode of mind that works great in 95 percent of your life and apply it within, it then implodes. It starts creating barriers, and that's true at work, it's true in our culture, true in our politics.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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