#ass

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility? ↗

— Robert Casey

#assume #dignity #human #human dignity #people

The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You don't get the best work from people if you're guiding them versus them guiding themselves. ↗

— Pete Cashmore

#best work #finding #get #guiding #learned

The single outstanding exception was the broad yet precise mandate communicated by the General Assembly in 1946 to prepare as soon as possible the Charter of Human Rights which the San Francisco Conference had not had the time or the courage to draw up. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#broad #charter #communicated #conference #courage

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#along #class #drudge #ever #genius

I couldn't help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio. They had the same talent, the same brains, the same dreams as the folks we sat with at Stanford and Harvard. I realized the difference wasn't one of intelligence or drive. The difference was opportunity. ↗

— Julian Castro

#back #brains #classmates #difference #dreams

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#i #sometimes #very

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful. ↗

— Dick Cavett

#brilliantly #club #comedy #comedy club #comic

I come from a very working-class background. ↗

— Clive Owen

#class background #come #i #very #working-class

It is the purpose of the majority of the Immigration Committee to encourage assimilation, yet this bill has already done more than anything I know of to bring about discord among our resident aliens. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#already #among #anything #assimilation #bill

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#any #burn #continued #decent #europe