Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

Valerie Simpson

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

Jim Fowler

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

David Herbert Lawrence

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

Alice Walker

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.

George Eliot

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

Kendrick Lamar

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Calvin Coolidge

Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.

Bodie Thoene

Moderate profits fill the purse.

Italian Proverb

The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.

Rush Limbaugh

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel.

Elbert Hubbard