#visions

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#bounded #directly #limited #live #men

They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#accessible #africa #educate #magazines #media

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States. ↗

— Salmon Portland Chase

#disposed #indestructible #looks #provisions #states

I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#declare #drawn #driven #either #forms

Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#communities #continue #counterterrorism #divisions #enforcement

Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood. ↗

— Janet Frame

#could #deciding #divisions #easy #fashionable

Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.' ↗

— Mara Liasson

#around #black #bridge #built #divisions

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions. ↗

— Charles Wagner

#certain #elemental #humanity #lived #lives

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#distribution #even #fatigue #finds #itself

...in my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books. ↗

— Lisa Factora-Borchers

#future #history #sexual-abuse #sexual-assault #visions-of-justice