Forged Quotes - Page 7

• Justice has often been forged from fires of indignities and prejudices suffered. Our triumphs that celebrate the freedom of choice are hallowed. We have arrived upon another moment in history when 'We the People' becomes more inclusive, and our freedom more perfect.

  Arenda L. Wright Allen

  Gay, Fire, People

  "Read the Incredibly Moving Opinion From the Judge Who Just Struck Down Virginia’s Gay-Marriage Ban" by Mariah Blake, www.motherjones.com. February 14, 2014.

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• Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.

  Audre Lorde

  Powerful, Views, Differences

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• The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.

  James Madison

  Real, War, Home

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press

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• There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• Steel is not forged in a comfortable place.

  Calpernia Addams

  Steel, Comfortable

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• Yes, marriage is hateful, detestable. A kind of ineffable, sickening disgust seizes my mind when I think of this most despotic, most unrequited fetter which prejudice has forged to confine its energies.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Marriage, Thinking, Mind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1988). “Shelley's Prose: Or the Trumpet of a Prophecy”

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• The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage, and by that right, he has forged chains around his limbs. The reward that he receives is stringent labor laws prohibiting the right of boycott, of picketing, of everything, except the right to be robbed of the fruits of his labor.

  Emma Goldman

  Country, Freedom, Stupid

  Emma Goldman (2009). “Anarchism and Other Essays: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.204, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.

  Florence King

  Equality, America, Government

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• Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet therewere surface similarities in their careers. Both led military rebellions against English monarchs--Cromwell against Charles I, Washington against George III. Each took local militia--the "train bands" of Cromwell, the colonial levies of Washington--and forged professional armies on a national scale. Each infused a new ethos in his troops--a religious spirit in Cromwell's case, a post-colonial American identity in Washington's.

  Garry Wills

  Religious, Military, Army

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• I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don't understand how certain kinds of links are forged between gender and sexuality in the minds of those who want masculinity to be absolutely separate from femininity and heterosexuality to be absolutely separate from homosexuality.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, Mind, Heterosexuality

  "The Difference Between Sexuality and Gender". bigthink.com.

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• Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.

  Bill Ayers

  Father, War, Destiny

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• Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

  Seneca the Younger

  Countenance, Falsehood

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• Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.

  Michael Longley

  Hot, Revision, Red

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.

  John Adams

  Adversity, Fire, People

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• Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.

  Alice Lowe

  Careers, Childhood, London

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I understand the anger Americans feel today. In the past, our presidents have channeled that anger and forged it into resolve, into endurance and high purpose, and into the will to defeat the enemies of freedom. Our anger was transformed into energy directed for good. Donald Trump is directing our anger for less than noble purposes.

  Mitt Romney

  Past, Enemy, President

  Transcript of Mitt Romney’s Speech on Donald Trump, www.nytimes.com. March 3, 2016.

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• Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Character, Thinking, Names

  Interview with Fred Armisen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2016.

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• My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Fire, Steel

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

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• When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing.

  Malcolm X

  Children, School, Grandmother

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• Some friendships are formed by a commonality of interests and ideas: you both love judo or camping or making your own sausage. Other friendships are forged in alliance against a common enemy.

  David Sedaris

  Ideas, Enemy, Camping

  "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Book by David Sedaris, June 1, 2004.

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