#lit

Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me. ↗

— Herb Brooks

#i #like #little #lot #maybe

I discourage a cult of personality. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#discourage #i #personality

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#because #disappointing #edited #essence #little

In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris of the past and thereby allowed the previously obstructed natural forces to flow forward into the future. Simplicity and austerity, not equality or individualism, were the messages of his inaugural march. It was a minimalist statement about a purging of excess and a recovery of essence. ↗

— Joseph J. Ellis

#thomas-jefferson #equality

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and to be loved. Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. It will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#women #equality

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political. ↗

— Earle Brown

#creation #motives #music #non-political #politically

Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#feminism #othello #equality

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#extension #politics #those #war #without

I'd like to cut down on the work a little bit. ↗

— James Brown

#cut #down #i #like #little

Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same. ↗

— Jerry Brown

#budget #california #contributions #crisis #cuts