Grievance Quotes - Page 4

• It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn't already guessed.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Creating, Daddy, Weakness

  Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.284, Macmillan

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• The whole history between Haiti and the Dominican Republic is complicated. We share the island of Hispaniola, and Haiti occupied the Dominican Republic for twenty-two years after 1804 for fear that the French and Spanish would come back and reinstitute slavery. So we have this unique situation of being two independent nations on the same island, but with each community having its own grievance.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Independent, Unique, Islands

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Happiness, Laughter

  Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)

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• Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

  Lance Morrow

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Past

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• What you think upon grows. Whatever you allow to occupy your mind you magnify in your life. Whether the subject of your thought be good or bad, the law works and the condition grows. Any subject that you keep out of your mind tends to diminish in your life, because what you do not use atrophies. The more you think of grievances, the more such trials you will continue to receive; the more you think of the good fortune you have had, the more good fortune will come to you.

  Emmet Fox

  Gratitude, Thinking, Law

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• Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty heap of human calamity, were it only surveyed by the eye of general benevolence equally attentive to every misery.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Men, Humanity

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.267

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• If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.

  Josh Billings

  Relate, Ifs

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• No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.

  Thomas Paine

  Debt, Bears, Cases

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.27, Ravenio Books

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• To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

  Jacques Barzun

  Hard Work, Depth, May

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• The First Amendment says that we can protest and call to - on our government to address grievances.

  Keith Ellison

  Government, Addresses, Firsts

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Law, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.16, Hackett Publishing

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• The British leadership has acknowledged that it only became possible to end the violence in North Ireland when it stopped thinking of the [Irish Republican Army] as "a terrorist organization" and began treating it as a political actor with genuine grievances that deserved to be addressed.

  Richard A. Falk

  Army, Thinking, Organization

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Take, for example, there is a right-wing populist uprising. It's very common, even on the left, to just ridicule them, but that's not the right reaction. If you look at those people and listen to them on talk radio, these are people with real grievances.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Uprising, Wings

  Source: www.iww.org

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• The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will 'preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution.' The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offence or defense; for the redress of grievances or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people.

  Joseph Story

  Strong, Rights, Government

  Joseph Story (1851). “Commentaries on the constitution of the United States”, p.357

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• Violence has no constitutional sanction; and every government from the beginning has moved against it. But where grievances pile high and most of the elected spokesmen represent the Establishment, violence may be the only effective response.

  William O. Douglas

  Government, May, Violence

  "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations", ("Points of Rebellion"), pp. 88-89, 1989.

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• Love holds no grievances.

  Helen Schucman

  Enlightening

  Helen Schucman “A Course in Miracles - Manual For Teachers”, A Course in Miracles

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• The politics of grievance is pervasive. It's spreading. And when you have an economy that has been ripped to shreds like this, and when you have more and more people thinking that there's no economic opportunity - that the game is so rigged that the standard recipes of hard work and education, stick-to-itiveness and so forth don't pay off.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hard Work, Thinking, Opportunity

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Prayer, War

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.560, Library of America

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• The silver lining of Brexit and Trump is that it has undermined the perception that globalization is an unstoppable force, whether or not we think it is a good thing or a bad thing. There have always been losers and as well as winners in this process, and cultural minorities have been among the most vulnerable losers. Now that sizable numbers of people in the most advanced economies have made their grievances felt in a fashion that is hard to ignore.

  David Wong

  Fashion, Thinking, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• ... our government is heading in the direction of violent revenge, with the prospect of sons, daughters, parents, friends in distant lands dying, suffering, and nursing further grievances against us. It is not the way to go. It will not avenge our son's death. Not in our son's name.

  Orlando Rodriguez

  Daughter, Revenge, Son

  "Readings from Howard Zinn’s 'Voices of a People’s History of the United States'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 20, 2006.

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• What's a major concern that people, major grievance Americans lodge? It's, we don't make anything in America anymore.

  Kellyanne Conway

  America, People, Concern

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Government, Opposites

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• In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.

  Lazare Carnot

  Country, Suffering, Littles

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• it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

  Harriet Martineau

  Suffering, Causes, Illness

  Harriet Martineau (1845). “Life in the Sick-room: Essays”, p.195

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• grievance does not make for great art.

  Eva Figes

  Art, Doe, Great Art

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