(291 quotes found)
“What happens in the bedroom is, up to a point, the government's business because it often had to solve problems caused there”
Edwin Vassallo
“Labour had to attract those people who might not necessarily have voted Labour in the past. We have to satisfy not only the principles but also the primary needs of the Maltese people in health, education, and civil right”
Joseph Muscat
““I cannot remain silent because I am in politics out of conviction and not because of convenience. Divorce was a civil right as were the vote for women and young people, free healthcare and education, the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the separation of Church and state.all of which Labour governments had fought for wholeheartedly”
“Family policy, was not to beat on one's chest against divorce, but to create the right socio-economic circumstances to help families stay together”
“Families should also be given the necessary benefits. But the government had its priorities wrong and instead of finding money to help families overcome burdens, it was spending €100 million on the City Gate project, it was building a bridge to nowhere at the breakwater and it had given cabinet members a €500 weekly raise.”
““You (the government) are not denying me anything by not giving me the €500 increase per week, like the Minister and Cabinet were given. I said from day one I would donate the money. You are denying the money from the charities which would have benefitted.””
“The Chicano movement was a direct result of the Black civil rights movement, and all of us were inspired by Dr. King. When Mrs. King came, she visited with Cesar privately . . . It meant a lot and said a lot about her.”
Alfredo Gutierrez
“What we definitely do not want is to have young people who cannot afford to study because of financial problems in their families.”
“Natural disasters may destroy great cities, but they do not destroy civil rights.”
Alan Gottlieb
“Our job is not to get those people who dislike us to love us. Nor was our aim in the civil rights movement to get prejudiced white people to love us. Our aim was to try to create the kind of America, legislatively, morally, and psychologically, such that even though some whites continued to hate us, they could not openly manifest that hate.”
Bayard Rustin
