When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environment, and appropriate contraception for everyone… — John Guillebaud Copy Share Image
It's worrying to think more than half the world's population lacks internet access and therefore lacks an equal opportunity to improve their… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population.… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image
New states were supposed to join the union when they reached a certain population, but in the late 19th century, population mattered… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated… — John Olver Copy Share Image
If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion… — Ernst Engel Copy Share Image
I think this spring as the mosquito populations start to increase, we should be especially cautious about locations where we've had locally-transmitted… — Laura Harrington Copy Share Image
“Once our family was very small and we used to say, ‘’our planet has enough resources to feed all of us’’ but… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
When we talk about foodies, we're talking about less than five per cent of the population who eat nicely. For most people… — Ainsley Harriott Copy Share Image
Only 1 percent of the homosexual population in America will die of old age. The average life expectancy for a homosexual in… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
Living here where I live, on a farm way out in the countryside, in the woods, in fact, I have plenty of… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population. — Sharon Lawrence Copy Share Image
Now we the American working population Hate the fact that eight hours a day Is wasted on chasing the dream of someone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. But at the end of the day, the population remains… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
