The storm stops at the door. Love reigns, peace dwells.
Until we express ourselves, tell our elected officials what we expect from them, we can't expect them to do it on their own.
The thing about kids is that they don't have the broader perspective of what's happening on a national level. Anything that's going wrong in their world, they somehow assume is unique to them and they're somehow to blame. It turns into an issue of shame.
A lot of people in this country are obese because of a form of malnutrition. One thing I'd like to do is to help people understand the correlation between a steady diet of empty calories - though you may not experience hunger pangs, you can't really function well if all you're eating are things like ramen noodles, or chips, cookies, and sodas, things that are quite typically inexpensive and affordable because of the way we subsidize the ingredients that go into them.
The prices of really unhealthy food are kept artificially low, and that contributes to obesity.
I'm sure there are people who just assume we can't have hungry people in America because so many people are obese, but once you start to understand that a major cause of obesity is inadequate nutrition, it really changes that conversation.
Most of my relatives are police marksmen, apart from my grandad who was a bank robber. He died recently, surrounded by his family.
The first goal and primary function of the U. S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination. '
Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.
We must be born with an intuition of mortality.