Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.President Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Pledge of Allegiance says '..with liberty and justice for all'. What part of 'all' don't you understand?Rep. Pat Schroeder (D) Colorado (We miss you, Pat!)
And besides, for all the talk about how cruel little kids are, they haven't got a patch on older people for cruelty. Little kids are just dumb, the smart ones and the slow ones. They do dumb things. They say what they think. They haven't learned enough yet to say what they don't really think. That comes later, when kids begin to turn into people and find out that they are alone.Ursula K. LeGuin, from Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.