#moth

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#caesar #chavez #created #democracy #down

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#i #left #make #me #mother

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#financial #i #inspired #me #mother

My mother was kind and forgiving and would take in all the waifs and strays in our neighbourhood; we always compared her to Mother Teresa. She taught me a lot. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#compared #forgiving #her #kind #lot

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#cub #get #her #living #mother

Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#mother #philosophy

If writers write, then rangers range. And I’d like to wake up every morning and be a mother, so I could eat my own clothes. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#logical #mother #ranger #writers #funny

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it. ↗

— Josh Holloway

#brothers #cents #computers #i #intellects

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#carry #comes #key #men #more

We lived in a real rough place but my mother kept me straight. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#lived #me #mother #place #real