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"Tell me the truth, Frank, remember that? We used to live by it. And you know what’s so good about the truth? Everyone knows what it is however long they’ve lived without it. No one forgets the truth, Frank, they just get better at lying."
April Wheeler (Kate Winslet) Revolutionary Road |
"It's a sad day in America when the words of Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow are not allowed on the floor of the United States Senate. Let Elizabeth Warren speak." —Democratic National Committee Interim Chairwoman, Donna Brazile, in response to Republicans voting to silence Senator Elizabeth Warren for citing a letter by the late Corvette Scott King during a debate on the nomination of Jeff Sessions as Donald Trump's attorney general.
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http://www.undp.org.fj/ro/wp-content...e1-450x236.jpg The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. —Helen Keller |
"As every other court to address the question has concluded, public accommodations laws do not simply guarantee access to goods or services. Instead, they serve a broader societal purpose: eradicating barriers to the equal treatment of all citizens in the commercial marketplace." —Washington State Supreme Court Judges in their unanimous ruling in favor of Curt Freed and Robert Ingersoll who sued a Washington florist for violating the state's anti-discrimination law when she denied Freed and Ingersoll wedding services on the basis of her faith. The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday, February 16, 2017.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/16/us/was...uit/index.html |
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Friendship
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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"With love and patience, nothing is impossible." - Daisaku Ikeda |
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President Trump Breaks a Promise on Transgender Rights
On Wednesday, the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, justified revoking the transgender school guidance by saying Mr. Trump is a “firm believer in states’ rights.” This inglorious justification has been deployed repeatedly by those on the wrong side of history in earlier civil rights battles. It was used to fight abolitionists, the women’s suffrage movement, the repeal of Jim Crow laws and, most recently, same-sex marriage.
As the federal government turns its back on transgender students, there is much that local officials, school administrators and parents can do to foster inclusive and safe learning environments. The federal government’s shift is no reason to abandon a set of common-sense guidelines that were informed by years of research by medical professionals. This should be a clarifying moment for the L.G.B.T. movement. Mr. Trump has offered no evidence that he is committed to advancing L.G.B.T. rights. Unless and until that changes, safeguarding the remarkable progress this community has made over the past decade will fall on ordinary Americans. —New York Times Editorial Board, Opinion Page, from President Trump Breaks a Promise on Transgender Rights |
Pain...
"Iron, left in the rain And fog and dew, With rust is covered. -Pain Rusts into beauty too.... - Mary Caroline Davies Our pain is ours. Some of it we have earned, the rest not, and it is still our own. When we fight our pain, we fight the experience of our humanness, and we lose ourselves in the process. A life without pain is a life of nonliving. Our pain lets us know and come to understand the full meaning of being human. If we fight the normal experience of our pain, we lose the possibility of experiencing the process of its rusting "into beauty too." We don't need to seek pain, but when it is inevitably there, we have the possibility of something new entering our lives. MY PAIN is a possibility. It is not a liability or a punishment. - Anne Wilson Schaef |
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