Monday, July 19, 2010

Anger is a gift.
-- Rage Against the Machine
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the of the anti-abortion forces, what they want is control. Control over behavior: power over women. Women in the anti-choice movement want to share in male power over womanhood, and do so by denying their own rights and responsibilities.
-- Ursula LeGuin
In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.
-- Meister Eckhart
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic throng, the coward, and the meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.
--- Ralph Chaplin
The things we remember the best are those better forgeten.
-- Baltasar Gracian
Hindsight is always 20/20.
-- Various
If I had no sense of humor, I would have long ago committed suicide.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion, but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.
-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg