"If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them."

-- Paul Wellstone

#Freedom Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Liberty Quotes

“God buries His workmen but carries on His work.”

Source : Thomas JACKSON (Wesleyan Minister.), Charles Wesley (1848). “Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Wesley ... Being an abridgement of his Life in two volumes, octavo”, p.469
“Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.â€¦ You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?”
“Americans will not allow any Islamic regime to reach the position of governance except if it is an accomplice to the Americans, just like what is happening right now in Iraq.”
“The most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing at the end of the year that many believe to be unrealistic. They invest their students in working harder than they ever have to reach that vision, maximise their classroom time in a goal-oriented manner through purposeful planning and effective execution, reflect constantly on their progress to improve their performance over time, and do whatever it takes to overcome the many challenges they face.”

Source : "Eight questions for Wendy Kopp". "Democracy in America", www.economist.com. April 3, 2010.
“I'm retired from the daredevil business.”
“It's time to realize that one cannot combat one injustice by invoking and using another injustice”
“Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apartâ€”the mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up its bones and reassemble its genome.”

Source : Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I just loved being in the theatre with all those crazy, creative people.”

Source : "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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