Sayings & Quotes

[Lilith7]

'When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges but the same responsibilities as straight people.'
Cynthia Nixon

'Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.'
John Greenleaf Whittier



ÔÇÿTo blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge each rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that thereÔÇÖs more idleness & abuse of govt favours among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.'

Norman Mailer


'Look, a village cannot reorganize village life to suit the village idiot. ItÔÇÖs as simple as that, and we have to understand: we have a village idiot in this country. ItÔÇÖs called fundamentalist Christianity.'

Sam Harris

"We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate. "
Lydia Maria Francis Child

'The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.
If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. '
~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859