Jim Thomas

“I can’t put the profession ahead of the people it’s supposed to serve,” Susan said. “It would be like teachers who care more about education than students.”
― Robert B. Parker, Ceremony

“and you would never know they were gone, but losing a child left an emptiness so large it screamed to be filled with memories.”
― Robert Crais, Chasing Darkness

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

“If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal.”
― John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage