Moxie

“All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.”
― Marilyn French

“I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

“The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.”
― Truman Capote

“The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.”
― Jim Wallis