“Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.” YearsCountryMotherNaturalMarriedDaughterRootsIndiaBeing MarriedComplementWesterners Author:Francois Gautier
“Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.” PeopleKnowsChildrenLittlesCountryStoriesBigsKidsLawSongMinesBrotherHard WorkOughtSingingLaborRootsDiedTownsManagementFruitBrokeOrganizedEnlightenedChild AbuseProtectedOrganizeCoalLungsFuture GenerationRaising ChildrenMillsBenevolentLittle SisterLittle BrotherLawlessnessChild LaborCoughingOrganized LaborDeserve BetterSweatshopsUnderpaidLabor LawsFruit Of Labor Author:Utah Phillips
“I will not tire of declaring that if we really want an effective end to violence we must remove the violence that lies at the root of all violence: structural violence, social injustice, exclusion of citizens from the management of the country, repression. All this is what constitutes the primal cause, from which the rest flows naturally.” IfsWantEndsCountryLyingSocialCausesViolenceCitizensFlowRootsManagementInjusticeRemoveCatholicismTireRepressionPrimalExclusionDeclaringSocial Injustice Author:Oscar Romero
“I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.” WantShouldI CanCountryCan DoWorryRootsBeing TrueAdopted Author:Emmylou Harris
“Chicago is seriously my favorite city in the country. People have roots here, which is nice. When you go to Los Angeles, no one is actually from Los Angeles.” PeopleCountryCitiesNiceRootsMy FavoriteLos AngelesChicagoFavorite City Author:Bill Rancic
“A people that has licked a more formidable enemy than Germany or Japan, primitive North America . . . a country whose national motto has been "root, hog, or die."” PeopleHas BeensCountryAmericaDiesEnemyRootsGermanyJapanPrimitiveMottoNorth AmericaFormidableHog Author:D. W Brogan