In affluent communities, where each member is keenly aware of his or her place within the Byzantine order, attracting the right friends is a blood sport. Chumming up to influential figures who are in a position to help can determine the course of an entire life.
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
We have to tell the stories of the everyday Americans who are adversely impacted by these policies. That's how we were able to keep the Affordable Care Act from being repealed. People told their stories; people showed up at Town Hall.
Worldly influences would hinder use of our agency afforded through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. But we are agents who can act, and that affects everything in terms of how we live the gospel in our daily lives. It affects how we pray, how we study the scriptures, how we worship at church.
I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama!
The issues we hear Donald Trump talking about are just so contrary to who we are as a people. They are an affront and an insult to our higher angels and our best selves.
Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?'
I'm not an aviation historian, I'm not an Air Force aficionado, and I'm definitely not a ufologist. I'm not someone who studies UFOs.
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.
The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.
My company, Cinema Gypsy, produced a podcast, 'Bronzeville,' in conjunction with Larenz Tate and his brothers that we're developing into a television show. It deals with a very tight-knit African-American community in Chicago in 1947 and people who run a numbers wheel.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
A message is something that makes sense no matter who you're running against.
I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.
Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a consideration, and their self-serving agendas prevail over common sense.
