"In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and……" — June Jordan
"In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways."
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61 Quotes by June Jordan
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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I…
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Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without…
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Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power,…
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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know…
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If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and…
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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have…
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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change…
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Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural…
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If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the…
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I am the history of the rejection of who I am
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Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of…
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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other.…
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More Bind Quotes
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
— Robert Burton
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
— Luc de Clapiers
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If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the…
— Charles Dickens
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.
— Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
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Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.
— Hermann Bondi
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All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His…
— Watchman Nee
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Therefore, a prudent ruler ought not to keep faith when by so doing it would be against his interest, and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we…
— James A. Baldwin
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Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all…
— Gregory Bateson
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