Redress Of Grievances Quotes

#1. The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher of warm spit. That's because TV will not come and treat it respectfully. Television is really something.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. The stopping of the Judicial courts, had been blended, in the minds of some people, with the redress of grievances considered only as a mode of awakening the attention of the legislature.

George Richards Minot

#3. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

U.S. Congress

#4. Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

Michael Tippett

#5. Grace will take you places hustling can't.

Brene Brown

#6. We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech.

Albert Finney

#7. I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose - that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it's just not something I want to do. I overdosed.

Agnetha Faltskog

#8. A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

Thomas Francis Meagher

#9. I like to wear beautiful clothes, but I don't have that many.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

#10. Death has a price, and all who bargain with the dead must pay it.

Douglas Clegg

#11. It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

Elizabeth Kenny

#12. The townspeople took the prince for dead
When he never returned with the dragon's head
When with her, he stayed
She thought he'd be too afraid
But he loved her too much instead.

Jess C. Scott

#13. With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

Heinrich Heine

#14. Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world.

Nelly Sachs

#15. The people shall not be restrained from peacefully assembling and consulting for their common good, nor from applying to the legislature by petitions, or remonstrances for redress of their grievances.

James Madison

#16. The padded outfits, the bad scripts, the phony-looking sets ... he dealt with it all. He had to. He was Superman.

Jerry Seinfeld

#17. Prostitution myths justify the existence of prostitution, promote misinformation about prostitution, and contribute to a social climate that exploits and harms not only prostituted women but all women.

Melissa Farley

#18. I wish I understood the beauty
in leaves falling. To whom
are we beautiful
as we go?

David Ignatow

#19. it's closing time

Leonard Cohen

#20. I wish to deal only with the masterpieces which the consensus of opinion for a long time has accepted as supreme. We are all supposed to have read them; it is a pity that so few of us have.

W. Somerset Maugham

#21. Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words.

Marjane Satrapi

#22. I distrust the rash optimism in this country that cries, "Hurrah, we're all right! This is the greatest nation on earth," when there are grievances that call loudly for redress.

Helen Keller