"When I look in the mirror I see someone who's aging now, and someone who kept a commitment made many, many years ago, and who today is trying to be an example for young women."

-- Shirley Sherrod

#Commitment Quotes #Trying Quotes #Today Quotes

“Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.”

Source : "The lady's not a tramp" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2001.
“After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.”

Source : Helene Deutsch (1954). “The Psychology of Women: Girlhood”
“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from an armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived. But he has no ambition and no energy. He will not even go out of his way to verify his own solutions, and would rather be considered wrong than take the trouble to prove himself right.”
“If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.”
“Someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. That's also what happens in almost every movie - someone is going to win and someone is going to lose.”
“The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.”
“The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export of nuclear and missile technology... Such forbearance on our part might have made sense during the Cold War when China was the counterweight to Soviet power. It makes no sense to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand.”
“She's a skank. He's a player. He's cute but almost OD'd last year, so he's a bad bet. She's a two-faced, lying, cheating witch. That's right, Trina, I'm talking to you," she shouted. "By the way," she added just for me, "Trina cusses, which means cussing is trashy, which means my golden rule is to never cuss. I have class. Unlike Trina, the ***** of Birmingham." The last part was, of course, shouted.”

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