Famous Quotes of the day
“In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he (sic) is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.”
US Supreme Court Opinion, Brown vs. Board of Education Decision
“It's not that I'm so smart. It's just that I stay with problems longer.”
Albert Einstein
“I wouldn't call it looting, I would call it survival that was happening.”
Corey Nixon (Survivor of the 2005 flood of New Orleans)
“A fact of My Lai, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and no doubt countless other atrocities is that when the cause is rotten, the rot filters down to everyone involved in it. The cause for which my generation was sent to Viet Nam was a false one, later admitted by those who orchestrated it. Those of us who did our duty in Viet Nam enabled our country to poison the land and water of that poor country with an especially virulent form of dioxin, Agent Orange. We would need hundreds of Memorial Walls to contain the names of the Vietnamese killed in that foolish war.”
Doug Nelson, truthout.org
“Patriotism is egoism writ large; it's group egoism.”
Karen Armstrong
