"The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention."

-- Marc Edwards

#Attention Quotes #Half Quotes #Vote Quotes

“The Tea Party is protecting its millionaire and oil company friends while gutting critical services that they know protect the livelihood of African-Americans, as well as Latinos and other disadvantaged minorities,”

Source : "Democratic Rep: Tea Party Would Love To See Black People ‘Hanging On A Tree’" By Jennifer Bendery, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2011.
“Try walking the halls of Congress. It's Abercrombie & Fitch meets the Hair Club for Men. Lots of really photogenic young people kissing up to lots of insufferable blowhards. Separated by one or two generations, most of these players have only one real thing in common: They have never been weaned from the public teat. The closest they've ever come to meeting a payroll is when they come together to spend everyone else's payroll taxes.”
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
“Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.”

Source : Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage
“There's more learning than is taught in books.”

Source : Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.1179, eBookIt.com
“How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.”
“He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.”
“[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.”

Source : The Well of Loneliness ch. 37 (1928)

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