#depend

I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it. ↗

— Robert Greenwald

#charge #crisis #democracy #depends #each

I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#depended #grew #i #me #people

As I've gotten older and grown more independent, I think for myself, and that's how it should be. ↗

— Michelle Kwan

#grown #how #i #i think #independent

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other. ↗

— David Selby

#been #depend #difficult #each #family

But, you know, it really depends on the character. Age doesn't really matter. ↗

— Alison Lohman

#character #depends #know #matter #really

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true ↗

— Patrick Ness

#men

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent. ↗

— Ray Romano

#growing #growing up #hard #independent #kids

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself ↗

— Kate Morton

#inspirational #truth #inspirational

Be tough minded but tenderhearted. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#independent-thought #inspirational #life #inspirational

If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation—mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was. ↗

— Mary Griffith

#gay-rights #independent-thought #inspirational #religion #inspirational