Beula Bratten

“I can confidently predict that if the world is saved, it will not be because some old minds came up with some new programs. Programs never stop the things they're launched to stop. No program has ever stopped poverty, drug abuse, or crime, and no program ever will stop them. And no program will ever stop us from devastating the world.”
― Daniel Quinn, Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”

― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man”
― Ralph Ellison

“Unlike other commodities, however, fast food isn’t viewed, read, played, or worn. It enters the body and becomes part of the consumer. No other industry offers, both literally and figuratively, so much insight into the nature of mass consumption.”
― Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

“We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skills . . . we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.”
― Esther Forbes, Johnny Tremain