#state

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power. ↗

— Major Owens

#community #country #credit #dart #disabilities

We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State. ↗

— Major R. Owens

#calls #children #clearly #e-mails #education

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state. ↗

— Amos Oz

#both #both sides #burned #coexist #compromise

For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#decades #liberties #once #ours #state

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#body #brother #creep #death #estate

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#any #briefly #inverse #involved #item

We in Illinois are very fortunate to have a number of historic structures that have added immeasurably to the cultural life of the state, to the tourism industry of the state which by the way is our number one industry. ↗

— James R. Thompson

#cultural #fortunate #historic #illinois #immeasurably

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level. ↗

— Rand Paul

#better #crime #issues #level #state

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#compromise #englishman #god #idea #know

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

#factor #grip #makes #master #own