Angie

“Patriotism does not mean that you think your country is perfect, or blameless, or even particularly likeable on balance; nor does it mean that you serve it blindly, go where it tells you to go and kill whom it tells you to kill. It means that you are committed to keeping it alive and making it better, that you will do whatever seems necessary (up to and including dying) to protect it whenever you, personally, perceive a mortal threat to it, military or otherwise.”
― Spider Robinson, Time Travellers Strictly Cash

“I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.”
― Terry Pratchett

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
― audre lorde