#sons

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#class #conspiracy #degrade #denied #enforced

It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

#because #being #characters #different #different reasons

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano. ↗

— Carla Bley

#father #free #got #i #instead

Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#around #daughters #fighting #freedoms #liberty

These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#country #decide #define #elections #endless

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#bad #based #because #disagree #good

I think we're doing the right things for the right reasons. We're not doing it to sell products. We're not doing it to be popular. We're doing it because in our judgment these stories are important to do, and at this length and this much depth. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#depth #doing #i #i think #important

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#anger #delusion #evils #greed #ignorant

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#banker #bus #containing #crime #fare

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#being #contradiction #epitome #existence #feel