Anthea Butler Quotes
Black women care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice.
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In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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While most philanthropists tend to flock together and build their teams around friends, family, or others who happen to be retired or with a lot of free time on their hands, a great entrepreneur knows that success is directly related to the quality and talents of their team.
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Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.
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Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth
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Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And our political system doesn't help.
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While Dawn worked two jobs to meet ends, her son was busy cutting school and hanging with his friends.
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Black women care deeply about civic engagement, democracy, education, children, and justice.
