#burning

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#america #burning #civilized #confessed #hanging

They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of the head. But I say a good love is one that casts you into the wind, sets you ablaze, makes you burn through the skies and ignite the night like a phoenix; the kind that cuts you loose like a wildfire and you can't stop running simply because you keep on burning everything that you touch! I say that's a good love; one that burns and flies, and you run with it! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fire #flames #freedom #inspirational-life #inspirational-love

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn to characters with a complex internal life, who have a burning frustration underneath that keeps them going. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#around #attached #beautiful #burning #characters

The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go. ↗

— Edmund de Waal

#letting-go #art

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. ↗

— Geraldine Brooks

#books #censorship #censorship

It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#banning #book-burning #books #censorship #library

We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens. ↗

— George Martin

#friends #had #holes #house #just

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge. ↗

— Don Henley

#bridge #burning #get #light #sometimes

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#burning #cold #cold war #communism #deadly

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#burning #concern #constant #dedication #democracy