“Just as nonviolence exposed the ugliness of racial injustice, so must the infection and sickness of poverty be exposed and healed.”
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Retro Quote – Fred Hampton
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Retro Quote – Richard Bach
“There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.”
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Retro Quote – Kate Chopin
“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.”
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Retro Quote – Theodore Roosevelt
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.”
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Retro Quote – Voltaire
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Retro Quote – Jerry Spinelli
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Retro Quote – Alistair Cooke
“The normal cycle in the life and death of great nations has been first a powerful tyranny broken by revolt, the enjoyment of liberty, the abuse of liberty – and back to tyranny again. As I see it, in this country – a land of the most persistent idealism and the blandest cynicism – the race is on between its decadence and its vitality.”
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Retro Quote – John Wayne
“I didn’t vote for him, but he’s my President, and I hope he does a good job.”
– John Wayne, on the 1960 election of John F. Kennedy
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A Note from the Past
On the day he left office in January of 1993, President George H.W. Bush left this hand-written note for incoming President Bill Clinton.
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Chief Writing Wolf 