Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.
Education should be one of our top funding priorities; talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.
Supporting the troops has got to mean more than bumper stickers on pickup trucks, my friends. We need to give them what they need.
I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.
My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!
Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.
Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.
Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear – dogs, alligators or men!
There have been hours in my unhappy life, many of them, when the contemplation of death as the end of earthly sorrow – of the grave as a resting place for the tired and worn out body – has been pleasant to dwell upon.
My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.
There are few sights more pleasant to the eye, than a wide cotton field when it is in the bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow.
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation – only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.
I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery;.
Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern slave, fed, clothed, whipped and protected by his master, is happier than the free colored citizen of the North. To that conclusion I have never since arrived.
What difference is there in the color of the soul?
Is everything right because the law allows it?
You don’t think in depression that you’ve put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you’re seeing truly.
Fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph.
We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it’s purposeful.
The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn’t face if they could get married.