Great & Meaningful Quotes

officerripley said:
"All Americans ought to be unnerved by anything that tries to stop the flow of learning, knowledge and truth."
~~Kellie Carter Jackson, associate professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, U.S.
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...If there is any matter upon which civilized countries have agreed--it is the evil of premature and excessive child labor.

~~U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
 
It may be true that morality cannot be legislated but behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law cannot change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law can't make a man love me...but it can restrain him from lynching me and I think that's pretty important.
~~Martin Luther King, Jr., University of California-Los Angeles, 4/27/1965
 
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

~~Alexis de Tocqueville
 
I found this quote that I liked and put it on this image. In case you can't read it, I will quote it:

"A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking,
because it's trust is not on the branch but in it's ability to fly." - Unknown

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