"We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty."

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Source : The New Republic, Volume 115, p. 379, 1946.

Sidney Hillman

#Children Quotes #Struggle Quotes #America Quotes

“In the business of portrait photography, one must combine the artist and the craftsman.”
“Temporary is all you're going to get with any kind of health care, except the health care I'm telling you about. That's eternal health care, and it's free... I've opted to go with eternal health care instead of blowing money on these insurance schemes.”
“It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions.”
“When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them.”
“Most of my ideas belonged to other people who never bothered to develop them.”
“You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.”
“It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.”
“The world is full of paper, write to me”

Source : Agha Shahid Ali (1987). “The Half-Inch Himalayas”, p.48, Wesleyan University Press

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