Jon Meacham The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time. – Jon Meacham Accept Quotes Bringingabout Quotes Compact Quotes Fundamental Quotes Government Quotes Larger Quotes Limits Quotes Rights Quotes Sake Quotes Social Quotes Task Quotes Time Quotes As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I’ve always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow – with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs. Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation.
DesignThomas Keneally And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins. – Thomas Keneally
LearningRick Riordan I can’t promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers. – Rick Riordan
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