#nation

When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play. ↗

— Joe Morton

#certain #determination #i #made #many

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#individuality #self-determination #soul

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. ↗

— William Godwin

#indignation #itself #pregnant #revolution #tyranny

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#brand #censorship #experienced #forever #imagination

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource. ↗

— Al Gore

#churchill #civilisation #everything #except #fashion

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster. ↗

— Al Gore

#constitutional #creativity #democracy #democratic #democratic system

I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them. ↗

— Al Gore

#enjoying #found #four #i #made

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination. ↗

— Al Gore

#challenge #emergency #faces #i #imagination

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. ↗

— Ulysses S. Grant

#like #nations #punished #their #transgressions

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good. ↗

— Norman Granz

#barbra streisand #combination #duke #duke ellington #ellington