"The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters."

-- Constance Baker Motley

#Rights Quotes #Movement Quotes

“The minute health care becomes a huge, unwieldy, expensive government bureaucracy it's a permanent feature of life and there's nothing anyone can do about it.”
“My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.”
“I was probably just graduating high school, maybe still in high school. When I was still in high school, maybe the last two years, I was rapping but I wasn't telling anybody. When I signed my deal people didn't know it was the same Ryan Montgomery from Oak Park High School, because I used to play basketball and I used to fight. Like I'd bring boxing gloves to school. So when they found out, it was, "You mean Ryan who be boxing?" or, "Ryan who be hopping up at the park?" So I was known as that guy.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
“As a general rule, no one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here, because that sentence has never been true anywhere on Earth,”

Source : "John Oliver Brilliantly Eviscerates Police Militarization in Ferguson". "Last Week Tonight" with John Oliver, mic.com. August 18, 2014.
“If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.”
“Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.”
“Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.”

Source : Science et Methode ch. 1 (1908)
“It was true what Jim said, this wasnâ€™t the end but the beginning. But the wars would end one day and Jim would come then, to the island they would share. One day surely the wars would end, and Jim would come home, if only to lie broken in MacMurroughâ€™s arms, he would come to his island home. And MacMurrough would have it built for him, brick by brick, washed by the rain and the reckless sea. In the living stream theyâ€™d swim a season. For maybe it was true that no man is an island: but he believed that two very well might be.”

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