#pro

We support President Truman's civil rights program. ↗

— Eugenie Anderson

#civil rights #president #program #rights #support

To progress is always to begin always to begin again ↗

— Martin Luther

#progress #salvation #sanctification #forgiveness

The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#goal #self-improvement #ultimate #writing #forgiveness

An imposing wall prominently divides the visions of President Obama and congressional Republicans when it comes to economic growth and creating jobs. Solyndra is on one side and the Keystone pipeline is on the other. ↗

— Fred Upton

#congressional #creating #divides #economic #economic growth

Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy. ↗

— Fred Upton

#countries #economy #emissions #environment #environmental

I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

#began #being #decent #human #human being

{President] Kayibanda's government [in Rwanda] continued the persecution against the Tutsis and began to make use of the media it controlled to launch a propaganda campaign against us. In a country where more than half the people cannot read or write and very few have televisions, radio is the dominant media. The fact that some newspapers were still printing the truth didn't matter much to the part of the population that couldn't read. Most of the literate people were already politically aware. While an educated person might question what they read or hear from the media, the uneducated tend to accept it. The uneducated are more easily affected by threats and the emotional trauma that propaganda like this can create. ↗

— John Rucyahana

#genocide #media #propaganda #radio #rwanda

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task. ↗

— George Soros

#comes #consequences #criterion #different #different people

As Lynn writes: "What angers me is the loss of control. At any moment someone could come to me, be dressed the right way and use the right code, and I no longer have free will. I will do anything that person requests. I hate them for that. Nothing else is as bad as knowi that I am always out of control; knowing that I am still a laboratory experiment, a puppet whose strings are hidden from ever but my handlers, and I don't yet know how to break free. p216

— Lynn Hersha

#control #free-will #government-abuse #manipulation #military

Freedom and blood I make my mark and fight for tomorrow. Finally I've got something, Something I can raise my voice for. Fine, tell them who you really want. Fine, well you'll get yours and I'll get mine. ↗

— Sara Quin

#sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #under-feet-like-ours #you-get-yours-and-i-ll-get-mine