I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy. – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within. – Chen Ning Yang
I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile. – Tahar Ben Jelloun