#shielded

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth, it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#being #feeling #hand #living #me

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness. ↗

— Eldridge Cleaver

#calamity #consequent #defended #equals #follows

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#alter #cannot #children #consequences #control

But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#been #before #experience #i #integrity