Frederick Douglass Preface Quotes & Sayings

Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that. That's why I sing these songs. That's why I tell these stories, dammit. No root, no fruit! — Utah Phillips

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end. — Thomas Jefferson

Each one of us is selfish, including me. — Santosh Kalwar

By steadily disciplining the animal nature, until it becomes one pointed, it is possible to establish conscious awareness of The Eternal. — Laozi

If you make the goal of your life just to stay alive, you'll fail. If you make the goal of your life the kingdom, you cannot lose. — Kevin DeYoung

I've always felt like the underdog, and I'm comfortable with that label. — Pink

Like the doctrine of determinism, its better-known metaphysical cousin, fatalism holds that it is not in our power to do anything other than what we actually end up doing. — David Foster Wallace

I only knew that Adam was hurt, and I wasn't there to make him safe. — Patricia Briggs

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter. — Andrew Young

If she wanted to enter an otherworld, all she had to do was open a novel. — Alice Hoffman

It's like walking on a 1970 blaze orange shag carpet in a kitchen. — Cody Lundin