#embers

The party has to be much more. It has to connect in a real way with rank-and-file members and be their voice. ↗

— Wes Boyd

#members #more #much #party #real

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other. ↗

— John Clayton

#christ #christmas #competition #complicated #denominational

I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership - well, I was drafted into the Waffen-SS and didn't exactly volunteer, which was just as idiotic. I wanted to be on the submarines and then ended up with the Waffen-SS. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#catch #child #course #drafted #ended

We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians. ↗

— James P. Hoffa

#business #chosen #country #even #fight

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#exactly #faults #human #human beings #members

The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger. ↗

— Curt Weldon

#able danger #briefed #commission #danger #members

My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop. ↗

— Peter Agre

#boy scout #brother #cousins #dairy #farms

National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services. ↗

— Corazon Aquino

#clean #criticism #criticisms #find #government

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them. ↗

— Augusto Roa Bastos

#forgets #happens #memory #remembers #them

I dealt with legal questions in the interest of Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP and its members during the difficult years of struggle for the victory of the Movement. ↗

— Hans Frank

#dealt #difficult #during #hitler #i