“Hatred of injustice is not the same thing as a love for everyday people.”
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People Quotes — page 823 of 5018
“It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering”
“Isabel Wilkerson's book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it!”
“Some people don't want to be morally consistent. They just want to be tied to their one issue.”
“We've got the wrong vision, the wrong values, the wrong priority, and as the great prophetic figure Marian Edelman Wright puts it, we have been AWOL when it comes to poor people and poor children.”
“Black people have been working hard for decades.”
“We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.”
“We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.”
“Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.”
“The problem is that affirmative action could never really get at the issue of corporate power in the workplace, and so you ended up with the downsizing; you ended up with de-industrializing. You ended up with the marginalizing of working people and working poor people even while affirmative action was taking place, and a new black middle class was expanding.”
“This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.”
“It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.”
“Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?”
“If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.”
“People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.”
“People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.”
“She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.”
“No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?”
“The important thing for me as an educator is how to - how do we unsettle the minds and touch the souls of significant numbers of young people who don't read texts or don't read my texts.”
“Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.”