#not

We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#allegiance #american #country #either #else

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#deep #deep down #down #except #inside

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world. ↗

— Elihu Root

#another #another way #better #each #good

Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#another #between #competing #confederation #countries

Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#came #dead #human #human rights #letters

One thing you cannot control is nature. ↗

— Diana Ross

#control #nature #one thing #thing #you

On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

#aware #being #car #changed #daughter

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together. ↗

— Ernestine L. Rose

#exist #freedom #slavery #together

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented. ↗

— Ernestine Rose

#being #government #land #laws #namely

I treat everyone as a friend, but if they betray me, that's it. They're out of my life in one way or another. ↗

— Michael Rosenbaum

#betray #everyone #friend #i #life