Righters Quotes & Sayings

The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. — Stephen Leacock

As a rule, white abolitionists either defended the industrial capitalists or expressed no conscious class loyalty at all. This unquestioning acceptance of the capitalist economic system was evident in the program of the women's rights movement as well. If most abolitionists viewed slavery as a nasty blemish which needed to be eliminated, most women's righters viewed male supremacy in a similar manner - as an immoral flaw in their otherwise acceptable society. The leaders of the women's rights movement did not suspect that the enslavement of Black people in the South, the economic exploitation of Northern workers and the social oppression of women might be systematically related. Within — Angela Y. Davis

To be forgotten, is to die a little. — Aung San Suu Kyi

No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor. — Saint Augustine

My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries. — Lasse Hallstrom

An entire greased-up baby being squirted out of a gay biker's asshole during a weird gay biker sex ritual. I guess the word weird isn't really necessary there. — Anonymous

I feel that the most rewarding thing I have ever done in my life is to be associated with UNICEF. — Danny Kaye

No problem can be solved by the same consciousness that caused it in the first place. — Richard Rohr

despair, even when their practical fortunes were hopeful. How could they understand that the Romans could hope even when their fortunes were hopeless? — G.K. Chesterton

I am notorious for making impassioned speeches about things nobody cares about. — Mindy Kaling

I've found that when you can quickly knock out debt you get motivated because you see progress. Then you attack the other debt so fast that even if it's at a higher interest rate, you don't end up paying much more because you've gotten rid of it. — Michelle Singletary

Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day. — Dave Ramsey

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions. — Robert Rauschenberg