“A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship.” HeartCountryBodyGreatnessMy HeartWeaknessCourtFingersOur CountryBitternessAchePointingPonderingLegislatorsMindlessPartisanshipPolarizationPointing FingersHeart AcheDivisivenessMy Heart Aches Author:Tom Coburn
“Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own.” PeopleWorldCountryBodyGovernmentAbsolutesAncestry Author:Marcus Garvey
“We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world - a monster country, one might say, along with others such as China, India, the recent Soviet Union, and Brazil. And there is a real question as to whether "bigness" in a body politic is not an evil in itself, quite aside from the policies pursued in its name.” IfsWorldRealCountryBodyMightTogetherEvilNamesPolicyIndiaUnionsPopulationChinaMonstersTerritorySovietSoviet UnionPursuedBrazilGreat CountryReal QuestionsCountries Of The World Author:George F. Kennan
“The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if there is evidence both ways, is a power of enormous consequence. An unscrupulous administrator might be tempted to say "Let me find the facts for the people of my country, and I care little who lays down the general principles."” PeopleIfsWayMayLittlesCountryFactsBodyMightCarePrinciplesFindingsEvidenceConsequenceLet MeLaysEnormousTreatedI CareTemptedAdministrativeAdministrators Author:Charles Evans Hughes
“Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.” MindLooksMayCountryReasonBodyPastStrangeGhostWelcomeGenerosityReason WhyDimensionsShoreFrighteningMind And Body Author:Martin Amis
“As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.” MenHeartMayCountryBodySimpleMoralPrinciplesWonderfulHarmonyClimateComplicatedPursuitImpulseMotiveCustomsGravityVaryCelestialMicrocosmCelestial Bodies Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“The U.S. has more guns per capita and supplies more guns to the world than any other country. What would be a fistfight without guns turns into dead bodies with them. Families with guns in the house are more likely to shoot themselves accidentally than to shoot any intruder. Women abused by their partners have a five-fold increased risk of being killed when their partner owns a gun. Every three hours, at least one child is wounded or killed by gunfire.” WorldChildrenCountryBodyWould BeTurnsThreeHouseHoursFiveRiskGunPartnersOther CountriesWoundedFoldsSuppliesIntruders Author:Gloria Steinem
“When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor, Black, white, latino Americans who had nothing to lose. They would challenge our government to eliminate exploitative, merciless, and war-mongering policies, nationwide, or else "tie up the country" through "means of civil disobedience." Dr. King intended to organize those legions into "coercive direct actions" that would make of Babylon a dysfunctional behemoth begging for relief. Is it any wonder he was killed?” MeanWarCountryBodyGovernmentActionBlackLosesChallengesWhitePoorWonderPolicyKingsDevilDirectTiesReliefBulletsDrsOrganizeLutherAstonishingLatinoDisobedienceBeggingCivil DisobedienceNothing To LoseLegionBlack WhiteBabylonDirect ActionMobilizationBehemoth Author:June Jordan