Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Recitation: by Male by Female
'Out of Africa,' Dinesen's second book, is a love story, though not the one portrayed by Streep and Redford in the film. The memoir is about Dinesen's love of East Africa - the cultures, the landscapes, the animals. The feeling that saturates the book is reverence.
Joanna Scott
LoveBookStoryFeelingAfricaOut
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
Andrea Dworkin
SufferingBelieveRealityHumanFact
When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are.
Robin McLeavy
CharacterComedyYouSeriouslyMore
And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.
Minoru Yamasaki
JoySocietyFeelEverythingDelight
Let us make a pledge now to help Fiji through this very important next stage of its journey. We can do this by promising to be patient, calm and tolerant and by respecting the views of others, even if we disagree with them.
Josefa Iloilo
JourneyCalmHelpImportantNow
In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.
Colin Powell
PartyRightRepublicanYearsLast
When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.
Bob Uecker
MenTeamClothesThreeStreetUp
I have heard from many readers since 'The Girl in the Blue Beret' came out. The story of my airline pilot, former B-17 bomber pilot Marshall Stone, on his search to find the people who helped him during World War II has struck a chord.
Bobbie Ann Mason
GirlWarBluePeopleWorldStory
I never allow myself to be pressured.
MS Dhoni
MyselfNeverAllowPressured
All I have to do is what's right for me.
Marianne Faithfull
MeRight
Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.
Kim Campbell
JusticeEqualityToleranceCanada
Someone once described entrepreneurship to me as a series of happy accidents.
Kevin Systrom
HappyMeSomeoneEntrepreneurship
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