#pa

There should be a moral principle there that says, let's green the ghetto first. Let's go to those communities where they have the least ability to pay for that retrofit and make sure they get that help, make sure they get that support. And give the young people standing on those corners the opportunity to put down those handguns and pick up some caulking guns and be a part of the solution. ↗

— Van Jones

#communities #corners #down #first #get

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future. ↗

— Van Jones

#cannot #colleagues #conscience #deck #defending

Women are individuals in parenting, and why not? ↗

— Erica Jong

#parenting #why #why not #women #women are

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#artist #chicks #i #i always #like

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#cure #groups #hard #hard work #members

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going. ↗

— David Starr Jordan

#aside #going #knows #man #man pass

Just as verbally and physically abused children internalize blame, so do incest victims. However, in incest, the blame is compounded by the shame. The belief that ‘it’s all my fault’ is never more intense than with the incest victim. This belief fosters strong feelings of self-loathing and shame. In addition to having somehow to cope with the actual incest, the victim must now guard against being caught and exposed as a ‘dirty, disgusting’ person ↗

— Susan Forward

#belief #children #depression #family #fearful

The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat. ↗

— June Jordan

#apparently #because #behalf #boat #cannot

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#away #father #grave #hand #him

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#could #country #governor #great #indians