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“A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.”

Looks Faces Loss Equal Gains Revelations Sincere

Author:David Whyte

“From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.”

Ifs Men States Faces Law Justice Poor Crime Equal Fairs Ideals Constitution Noble Lawyer Trials Emphasis Poor Man Tribunals Accusers Fair Trial

Author:Hugo Black

“Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.”

Knows Wisdom Faces Equal Folly Infinity

Book:Lazarus

Source: Lazarus

“A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.”

“In the last 25 years, we've convinced ourselves and a majority of the country that women can do what men can do. Now we have to convince the majority of the country - and ourselves - that men can do what women can do. ... Let's face it: until men are fully equal inside the home, women will never be really equal outside it.”

Men Years Country Home Lasts Faces Can Do Equal Majority Equality Convinced Convince

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and Immigrants. There is no racial enlightenment for these groups, which are huge. Millions of Muslims and an equal number of immigrants, who whether legal or illegal, face discrimination both legally from the government and extra-legally from White Americans - and sometimes Black and Hispanic Americans. The Democratic Presidential candidates are avoiding these issues in order to cultivate support among White Americans.”

“A true bond of friendship is usually only possible between people of roughly equal status. This equality is demonstrated in many indirect ways, but it is reinforced in face-to-face encounters by a matching of the posture of relaxation or alertness.”

People Way Faces Friendship Equal Encounters Relaxation Face To Face Posture Indirect Matching Alertness Bonds Of Friendship

Book:Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior

Source: Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior

“Look, we'll have to confront the pathologies of poverty at some point. We can deal with them cheaply at the front end, in infancy. Or we can wait and jail a troubled adolescent at the tail end. To some extent, we face a choice between investing in preschools or in prisons.”

“[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.”

“I have found when I look at an audience that the expressions on the peoples' faces aren't always up to par with the sounds that they're making. A crowd can sound like they're having a good time when your eyes are closed but if you open your eyes, the looks on some of those faces don't equal the sound.”

Ifs Looks Eye Faces Found Sound Audience Expression Equal Crowds Good Times Having A Good Time

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.”

Faces Fighting Enemy Knowing Five Sacrifice Battle Equal Bravery Brave Ninety

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces because for everything taken, it makes a return in equal measure.”

Two Faces Taken Fire Four Return Equal Riders Drought Prairie Tornadoes Horsemen Four Horsemen

Book:PrairyErth: A Deep Map

Source: PrairyErth: A Deep Map

“To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and neglected with equal disregard of policy and goodness.”

Humans Hard Faces Opportunity Human Beings Policy Tears Equal Goodness Tasks Mortals Misfortunes Wretched Neglected Wipe Disregard Overlooked Alleviate

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“We only have to recall the color of the faces of those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans.”

Knows Faces Opportunity Color Equal Recalls Devastated Equal Opportunity Katrina

Author:Jimmy Carter

“Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.”

“When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.”

Mean Long States Faces Tears Solitude Equal Accounts Wet Forsaken Insensibility

Book:Journey to the Interior of the Earth

Source: Journey to the Interior of the Earth