#lis

The rich and the well-born, according to the Federalist Papers, was greatly feared by the founders. ↗

— John Jay Hooker

#feared #federalist #founders #greatly #papers

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#blues #choice #choke #down #garbage

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#becoming #been #being #fear #fundamentalism

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#begun #black #establishment #free #goal

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy? ↗

— Bell Hooks

#color #columbus #contemporary #dimensions #especially

Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.' ↗

— Tom Hooper

#australian #called #came #english #friends

What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.' ↗

— Tom Hooper

#anyone #child #confidence #heard #i

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#assassins #idealism #without #words

All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#chooses #compass #country #country music #cowboy

From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#class #early #early age #everything #go