There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must act together, as a united people... For the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let… — Patricia Young Copy Share Image
I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Ridiculous to think what indignities I would suffer in silence, if I knew that I was to be rewarded with an oversize… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can't minimize the terror factor. As you get older you get more and more frightened because the terrible indignities of old… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
These small indignities and minor cruelties take a toll. They add to the burden of stress and fatigue that is already present… — P. M. Forni Copy Share Image
Empathising with the younger children on whom the same confidence trick was being imposed, I embarked on a crusade around the neighbourhood,… — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation… — George Will Copy Share Image
Most trouble is unnecessary. Between the indignity of being born and the agony of dying enough bad things must of necessity happen… — Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett Copy Share Image
Justice has often been forged from fires of indignities and prejudices suffered. Our triumphs that celebrate the freedom of choice are hallowed.… — Arenda L. Wright Allen Copy Share Image
Anger can offer a sense of indignity to replace a sense of shame, and offer a voice-raised above others-which can finally be… — Gina Barreca Copy Share Image
The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There are real indignities and real problems when all facets of life are controlled –when to get up, to eat, to shower-and… — Judi Chamberlin Copy Share Image
Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of… — Margo MacDonald Copy Share Image
The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The indignity of it!- With everything blooming above me, Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses, Whole fields lovely and inviolate,- Me down in the… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“I’m talking about the kind of indignity that changes you as a person, makes you withdraw, hide from the world because suddenly… — S. Walden Copy Share Image
We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
To live in poverty is to live with constant uncertainty, to accept galling indignities, and to expect harassment by the police, welfare… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities… — Vicki Baum Copy Share Image
“for the modern indignity of travel—the promiscuities and vulgarities, the station and the hotel, the gregarious patience, the struggle for a scrappy… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Disabled people are now having to beg for small payments that once were held up as entitlements, and a way of making… — Mik Scarlet Copy Share Image
Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Now all I thought of, as we spoke, was that today I’d be walking with Marzia and each time we’d try to… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth:… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
He thus reaps the full fruits which result from his toil and labors with the incentive of free enterprise to maximize his… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices,… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
Lord, please restore to us the comfort of merit and demerit. Show us that there is at least something we can do.… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
