Grievance Quotes - Page 6

• Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.

  Camille Paglia

  Running, Strong Women, Daddy

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.50, Vintage

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• There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.

  Anthony Trollope

  Heart, Men, Feelings

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “Orley farm”, p.41

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• We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Children, Pain, Real

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• Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and thus prevent their correction.

  Thomas I. Emerson

  Real, Expression, Issues

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• That this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if left altogether without control may be exercised to our great oppression; and all history shews how efficacious is its intercession for redress of grievances and re-establishment of rights, and how improvident would be the surrender of so powerful a mediator

  Thomas Jefferson

  Powerful, Rights, Giving

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• The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British subject upon another, in whatever country that may be done.

  Bayley

  Country, Rights, Law

  Forbes v. Cochrane and Cockburn, 2 St. Tr. (N. S.) 159, 1824.

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• With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur.

  Kenneth Waltz

  War, Ambition, Law

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.159, Columbia University Press

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• First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down to reality, but his people belong to a prosperous middle-class world, on holiday and in holiday mood. Piers Plowman stands alone as a revelation of the ignorance and misery of the lower classes, whose multiplied grievances came to a head in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.

  William Langland

  Holiday, Ignorance, Reality

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• We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they started it. And we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the causes of the war, for our position is that no grievances or policies will justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned as an instrument of policy.

  Robert H. Jackson

  War, Government, Leader

  Statement by Justice Jackson on War Trials Agreement, avalon.law.yale.edu. August 12, 1945.

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• 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

  Community, Reason, Redress

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• To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Felt, Ifs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Mind, Let It Go

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Nov 23, 2011

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• Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor.

  John F. Kennedy

  Self, Justice, Presidential

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• Sometimes we can take offense so easily. On other occasions we are too stubborn to accept a sincere apology. Who will subordinate ego, pride, and hurt-then step forward with 'I am truly sorry! Let's be as we once were: friends. Let's not pass to future generations the grievances, the anger of our time'? Let's remove any hidden wedges that can do nothing but destroy.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Sorry

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• And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.

  Samuel Adams

  Army, Rights, People

  Debates of the Massachusetts Convention, 1788.

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• 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 Minot

  People, Mind, Stopping

  George Richards Minot (1810). “The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts: In the Year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Six. And the Rebellion Consequent Thereon”, p.39, Boston : J.W. Burditt

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• In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked into quite an unpleasant scene. The doctor had begun by bullying her, had said Mrs Callendar was nice, and then - finding the ground safe - had changed; he had alternately whined over his grievances and patronized her, had run a dozen ways in a single sentence, had been unreliable, inquisitive, vain. Yes, it was all true, but how false as a summary of the man; the essential life of him had been slain.

  E. M. Forster

  Running, Bullying, Nice

  "A Passage to India".

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• She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

  Gillian Flynn

  Bird, Gone, Handful

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.49, Crown

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• I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I'm Methodist. I have grievances with both parties.

  Joseph Lowery

  Party, Republican, Methodists

  "Rev. Joseph Lowery, Author Ron Christie on 'FNS'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2006.

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• 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

  Government, People, Television

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

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• The Nazi Party was, in the early 1920s, but one among many nationalist and volkisch radical political groups. It was catapulted to prominence with the onset of economic recession in the late 1920s... The Nazis owed their spectacular to a combination of two discrete sets of factors: first, their distinctive organisation and strategy; and secondly, the wider socio-economic conditions which created climates of opinion and sets of grievances on which the Nazis could prey.

  Mary Fulbrook

  Party, Two, History

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• The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

  Clark Kerr

  Entrepreneur, Together, Common

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• What feminism sought to do, when you get right down to it feminism was brought to us by a bunch of angry women whose major grievance and beef was with human nature and God. And they sought to reverse, undo, change, whatever, basic human nature, things that we're born with.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Feminism, Human Nature

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• ... fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies; and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Lying, Hate, Opportunity

  Whitney v. California (concurring opinion) (1927)

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• It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help tackle the actual grievances in Palestine, Kashmir, and in central and southern Iraq, and to help the region out of its economic backwardness.

  James Buchan

  Iraq, Southern, Kashmir

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