"Look, I want what's good for everybody. I want to promote good state education for all. I want to raise standards for all kids, irrespective of race and class but why can't they all just do what I say when I know I'm right?"

-- Arabella Weir

#Kids Quotes #Race Quotes #Class Quotes

“In 13 years I've come to the conclusion that I need to play for second or third place.”

Source : "Masters 2012: the final day - as it happened" by Scott Murray, www.theguardian.com. April 08, 2012.
“Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.”

Source : Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg
“It takes loneliness in oneself to recognize it in another.”
“Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such that they can understand property rights.”

Source : "Conservative Push For Solar Isn’t Quite As Conservative As It Seems", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2015.
“In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense â€“ a â€˜finalâ€™ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic telos of the â€˜Westâ€™sâ€™ escalating dominations of abstract individuation, an ultimate self untied at last from all dependency, a man in space.”
“I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.”
“As we celebrate the 100th birthday of Margaret Sanger, our outrageous and our courageous leader, we will probably find a number of areas in which we may find more about Margaret Sanger than we thought we wanted to know...”
“How capable are we of bringing about authentic change if we don't have voices from the margins?”

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