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If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.
What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.
The consequences of turning a blind eye to government corruption go far beyond simply letting some corrupt politicians and bureaucrats walk free.
It's hard for people who obey and respect the law to keep their heads from exploding in the face of affronts to common sense and the rule of law.
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
Black youth, in general, have no understanding of our past. Young black people who don't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was, don't know nothin'.
The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism, injustices and inequities.
Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.
I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.
I want to go up to the closest white person and say: 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing' and then slap him, just for my mental health.
We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.
Twitter is half me trying to live in the world and half me processing and sharing the world. I share a lot, and some of that is to keep me honest.
The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
Why would anyone be able to make $21 million not showing up for work for a single day? That is vulgar capitalism. That is not good for the nation.
Well of course, when you have kids, you become more protective and you think about how to give them the healthiest upbringing and the best future.
The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.
Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
People allow themselves to be slaves of their bad habits and society's bad habits - but they have free will, and if they wish to be free they can.
When you have found inner peace, you are in constant contact with the source of universal energy and cannot be tired. . . You have endless energy.
Worry is useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Worry is not concern, which would motivate you to do everything possible in a situation.
I have not seen anyone assume that all the citizens of New York are guilty of murder, violence, robbery, perjury, or writing proprietary software.
You're damn right when you say I've shown people how to make a firebomb, I've done my time for my crimes, and I should be able to talk about them.
I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.
Evil can be opposed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed.
If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.
You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
Islam takes advantage of two structural flaws that exist in the Western society. One is political correctness and other is the decline of morality.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'
The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.
If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.
When we can really put ourselves in the shoes of the other, when we can reach new depths of empathy, then we can be effective ambassadors of peace.
Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.
Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.
Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.
I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.
We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.
We should tax things we don't like. We should tax pollution ... And we should lighten the taxes on things we do like, like honest labor, like food.
Hillary Clinton is going to find common ground with the Republicans on foreign and military affairs. They both want to enhance the military budget.
Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.
If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?
If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.
An abortion is expensive. Its cost includes pay for the doctor, supporting medical staff, their health benefits packages, and malpractice insurance.
When you stand amid the unending vistas of Kenya's Maasai Mara, it's impossible to remain focused inward. Your mind expands to the distant horizons.
In South Africa, there is only one name that every child knows, every leader invokes, and every grandparent tells their grandchildren about. Madiba.
Warmakers are often wrong. ... Peace advocates are sometimes right, especially when their ideas are not only morally sound but politically realistic