#embers

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy. ↗

— Shirley Temple

#embassy #hour #i #members #personally

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#belong #care #club #i #like

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S. ↗

— James K. Polk

#any #became #before #conception #congress

What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin Fairless

#court #different #five #intended #law

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#ageism #basic #being #community #deny