"American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom."

-- Marcus Garvey

#People Quotes #Progress Quotes #Labels Quotes

“Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.”
“I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?”
“. . .and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.”
“I started out wanting to be a straight adventure cartoonist, but in 1979 realized what my real bag was.”
“I always try to work with people who are better than me, so I can learn more.”
“There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.”
“I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way.”
“If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.”

Source : Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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