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One important aspect of justice, Jose Miranda reminds us, involves the restoration of what has been stolen. Giving food to the hungry or clothing to the naked is not a charitable handout but an exercise in simple justice - restoring to the poor what is rightfully theirs, what has been taken from them unjustly. ↗

— Robert McAfee Brown

#christianity #inspirational #justice #food

Latinos are here to stay. As citizen Raquel, I'm proud to be Latina. ↗

— Raquel Welch

#here #i #latina #latinos #proud

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction. ↗

— Robert Welch

#distinction #hundred #knew #made #meant

For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige. ↗

— Robert Welch

#american people #beautiful #carrying #compassionate #courageous

In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule. ↗

— Robert Welch

#american republic #constitution #deliberate #division #emphatic

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies. ↗

— Fay Weldon

#committees #companies #greatest #greatest things #individual

Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience. ↗

— Felix de Weldon

#because #city #commission #could #devote

If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#brings #crazy #dieting #ending #everything

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago. ↗

— Paul Weller

#ago #conscious #could #i #ones

People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git. ↗

— Paul Weller

#git #grumpy #just #man #old