#erica

Kids can and will thrive in the right conditions, but it all seems to start with the teachers, and giving those teachers the resources to teach- and not just to test. ↗

— Morgan Spurlock

#education #education

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#equal #inspirational #truth #equality

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America ↗

— Paul Robeson

#america #equal-rights #fighting #injustice #race

It's my experience that most folk who ride trains could care less where they're going. For them it's the journey itself and the people they meet along the way. You see, at every stop this train makes, a little bit of America, a little bit of your country, gets on and says hello. ↗

— David Baldacci

#train #experience

He carried her over the Owl Creek mountain range without stopping,” he said, quietly this time. “He carried her until he reached one of the hot springs around what became Chapin, and then he walked into the water with her and held her there for three days. He had about given up when she opened her eyes and whispered his name. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #henry-whitmire #laura-anderson-kurk #love #meg-kavanagh

Country music is the poetry of the American spirit. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#country-music #poetry #spirit #experience

Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can. ↗

— Gloria Mallette

#books #family #marriage #psychological-suspense #family

I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped they’d be proud. ↗

— Kiera Cass

#family

Democracy: when artists lose patronage and are simply patronized. This is the case everywhere except America, where true art has never existed, and democracy has recently followed suit. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#art #democracy #funny #art

I'm an American, our names don't mean shit. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#humorous-quotations #humor