Accommodations Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson

The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented…

— Anonymous

“Those tears, that anger, cast into the past, deplete our moral energy for the present. And the lines are not always clear. In the…

— Howard Zinn

“The indifference of trees to the historical moment. The indifference of dreams to interpretation. The indifference of the people to its own triumph. The…

— Jean Baudrillard

“Some people not only burn their bridges, but they also torch the town! With all their deeds of drama and destruction, they leave behind…

— Susan C. Young

“If they had had a different neighbour, one less sel-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of normal, charitable instincts, their desperate state…

— Victor Hugo

I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the…

— Howard Zinn

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of…

— Dorothy Dix

When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The cause of the riots were the rioters

— Dan Quayle

“From the outset, people's experiences of desire and rage, memory and power, community and revolt are inflected and mediated by the institutions through which…

— Anne McClintock

As one recalls some of the monstrous situations under which human beings have lived and live their lives, one marvels at man's meekness and…

— George Amos Dorsey

“So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well…

— Susan Sontag