#chi

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India. ↗

— Andy Stern

#american #american workers #china #companies #compete

I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#i #mix #much #schizophrenic #slob

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#age group #america #brain #children #development

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#much #stand #stand up #then #up

Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#budget #children #choices #cuts #draconian

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#communities #counter #decent #education #enough

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#body #brain #carry #chief #function

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#abandon #absolutely #appalled #brain #dare

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#beneath #childish #doubting #effectiveness #gag

Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation. ↗

— Ben Edwards

#active #activists #change #doers #doing