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Us Quotes by June Jordan
- If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive…
- To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference…
- If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of our hearts, then…
- So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among…
- Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.
- That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.
- In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong