#ra

We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#better #brothers #color #conditions #creed

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#committees #communist #congressional #conspiracy #first

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#literature #reading #words #literature

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable. ↗

— Robin Day

#conserving #designers #durable #energy #fair

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards. ↗

— Robin Day

#afterwards #embarrassed #get #lot #me

You've got to build a career and a practice. ↗

— Robin Day

#career #got #practice #you

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#literature #reading #literature

Canada evolved within the British Empire: it inherited the Parliamentary system, the Cabinet system and all the other features of the British constitutional system which had been in place, for the most part, for several centuries before Canada was even thought of. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#before #british #british empire #cabinet #canada

I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#convinced #democracy #essential #ever #i

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#any #blindly #brave #brave new world #canadians