"I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square--but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber."

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Source : "A Culture of Liberty". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2009.

Jacob M. Appel

#Grateful Quotes #Squares Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.”
“Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.”
“I'm from the dirty depths of New Jersey.”

Source : Interview with Kate Bosworth, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 21, 2011.
“To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.”
“A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home,”

Source : Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.26, Courier Corporation
“If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.”

Source : Lisa Kleypas (2012). “A Wallflower Christmas: Number 5 in series”, p.108, Hachette UK
“Edits are very important to me - they're the way in which I work on everything.”
“People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.”

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