"I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice."

-- Theodore Parker

#Justice Quotes #Long Quotes #Moral Quotes

“You cannot carry on forever squeezing the productive bit of the economy in order to fund an unprecedented engorgement of the unproductive bit.”

Source : "Hannan Rips PM Brown; Obama on Same Path?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2009.
“Men like women who are fun to be around, who are kind, intelligent, honest and who don't play games.”
“There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.”

Source : "See It Now (A Conversation with J. Robert Oppenheimer)". Documentary (interview with Edward R. Murrow), January 4, 1955.
“As Dr. King said, an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. It is that creed of the civil rights movement that still motivates us today...So today, we take up the cause of joining arms with our immigrant brothers and sisters in that spirit... to lend a hand to those who confront injustice as a result of a broken immigration system.”

Source : "Why Immigration Reform Is Part of the Civil Rights Struggle" by Arturo Conde, abcnews.go.com. March 1, 2013.
“We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good.”
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”

Source : Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”
“However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.”
“There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.”

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