#natives

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#choice #choose #create #freedom #oneself

Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive. ↗

— Ann Oakley

#alternatives #career #clearly #expensive #insisting

Democrats have laid out a program that, if adopted, would make us independent of Middle Eastern oil in ten years, and create a new economy especially for those in rural America. Our program invests in clean energy alternatives and provides energy assistance for those in need. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#alternatives #america #assistance #clean #clean energy

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#employments #evidence #fitness #given #high

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different. ↗

— Colin Firth

#different #doing #going #hitting #idea

Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#arms #be careful #careful

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. ↗

— Dorothy Thompson

#aggressive #alternatives #conflict #creative #passive

If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#country #dallas #dangerous #detroit #dressed

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters. ↗

— Robert Morley

#always #british #happy #long #natives

There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#day #efforts #happens #history #hope