#lis

A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#children #cigarettes #even #find #forever

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#biological #children #different #had #into

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#communist #conservative #controlled #criteria #democrat

Any time the president talks, you listen. ↗

— Ben Nelson

#listen #president #talks #time #you

Your patience would fail you if I should continue to relate all the disrespectful speeches and treatment which your servants have been obliged to listen to and patiently to bear. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#been #continue #disrespectful #fail #i

Why is it that white people find it easier to think like a mountain than like a person of colour?' Carl Anthony quoted by Rebecca Solnit ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#environmentalism

In 1995 Bank of America issued a famous report on sprawl in California. The bank pronounced: 'Urban job centers have decentralized to the suburbs. New housing tracts have moved even deeper into agriculturally and environmentally sensitive areas. Private auto use continues to rise. This acceleration of sprawl has surfaced enormous social, environmental, and economic costs, which until now have been hidden, ignored, or quietly borne by society. ↗

— Dolores Hayden

#environmentalism

The people that live in these districts, they don't want to watch it. They don't want to see their children die or killing other people. The only people that it is entertainment to are the people in the capital that have been brainwashed and are misguided and living in a completely unrealistic kind of world. ↗

— Liam Hemsworth

#brainwashed #capital #children #completely #die

I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#believe #civilization #competitive #consider #democracies

In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#cult #dictatorship #glorification #gone #lengths