Words of the past that seem relevant today

[beaverpond]

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

John F. Kennedy

[beaverpond]

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

[beaverpond]

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there's hardly a difference.

Harry S. Truman

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

[beaverpond]

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

Thomas Jefferson

[alenigma]

Unfortunately, this is no longer relevant in this day and age!
All Lives Matter!

[beaverpond]

Unfortunately, there are still groups out there who think they are entitled to special rights. Groups in ME and NH tried to attain special rights status and failed but they got enough votes in both states that I don't think we have seen the last of them, this took place last spring.

[beaverpond]

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

Nelson Mandela

[beaverpond]

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Abraham Lincoln

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We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.

Franklin D. Roosevelt