What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. – Paul Wellstone
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. – Edgar Allan Poe
To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. Im adding up the evidence on either side, and Im seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God. – Julia Sweeney
I could not tell you the date of my mothers death. I could not tell you the date of my dads death. These are not dates that I find significant. – O. J. Simpson
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men — bring them softness, teach them how to cry. – Joan Baez, “Sexism Seen but not Heard,” Los Angeles Times, 1974
It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist. – Georgie Anne Geyer
