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#distress

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Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.


Donna Brazile


#distress #governor #help #help people #jesus

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!


Robert Burns


#bliss #brother #brothers #distress #exquisite

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.


Wendell Willkie


#administration #beliefs #bureaus #congress #distress

I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forget me! But do not torture me so. Oh! how easy for those who have no sorrow of their own to talk of extertion!


Jane Austen


#comical #distress #love #torture #anger

Cam was filled with the rage of a man unable to rescue his lady, even though she was only debatably in danger.


Eloisa James


#love

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.


John Adams


#arise #circulation #coin #confederation #confusion

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.


William Blake


#cause #distress #elsewhere #endure #fortitude

I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress.


Richard Cobden


#am #any #been #country #degree

It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations.


Mac Thornberry


#any #anyone #begins #beliefs #calculations

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.


Joseph Butler


#compassion #debt #distressed #mind #misery






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