#war

The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha? ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#bush #fact #failed #jack #policy

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#american #asunder #being #body #dark

On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#deported #empire #estimated #eve #hundreds

An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#american #asunder #being #body #dark

The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line. ↗

— Brian Boitano

#award #embodies #everybody #field #given

Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that. ↗

— Brian Boitano

#am #bit #everything #going #i

I've gone to war zones before and never got shot. ↗

— Manute Bol

#gone #got #i #never #shot

The only plan the Administration seems to have for winning the war is that there is no plan and no schedule for our troops to come home and get out of harm's way. ↗

— Eliot Engel

#come #get #harm #home #only

I've been way too blessed. Had too much fun, too many rewards. ↗

— Ato Boldon

#blessed #fun #had #i #many

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. ↗

— Robert Bolt

#aside #birth #day #does #draw