Jan Lynch

“Nothing is as prolix as ignorance.”
― Thaddeus Stevens

“Will part of this nation rejoice at seeing the rest oppressed, and reward a leader who has cunningly manipulated its fears and prejudices? Or will a majority of voters insist on a leader . . . who will appeal to their birthright of idealism and their love of justice, instead of to their heritage of racism and special privilege?”
― Shirley Chisholm, Unbought And Unbossed

“You can't argue with someone whose premises are completely different from yours, where there is not even an inch of common ground”
― Shirley Chisholm

“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost’s familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road--the one less traveled by--offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring