"Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature."

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Source : Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.279, Courier Corporation

Agnes Smedley

#Fighting Quotes #Men Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.”
“Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.”

Source : Peter Singer (2010). “The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty”, p.21, Pan Macmillan
“The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.”
“Let children have tales of the imagination, scenes laid in other lands and other times; heroic adventures, hairbreadth escapes, delicious fairy tales, even where it is all impossible, and they know it, and yet they believe.”
“as roads go, the road home is as good as any.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2014). “The Summer Of The Danes”, p.258, Head of Zeus
“I can remember in the early 60s that there were a couple of really dynamic women performers at the time - Brenda Lee, there was Connie Francis.”
“People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.”
“I am for a government rigorously frugal & simple, applying all the possible savings of the public revenue to the discharge of the national debt; and not for a multiplication of officers & salaries merely to make partisans, & for increasing, by every device, the public debt, on the principle of its being a public blessing.”

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