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“[But those with an interest in perpetuating the idea that the chief cause of black misfortune is an American culture that ''doesn't care about black people] decry racism whether it exists or not. ''The ugly truth, ... Likewise US Representative Barbara Lee, a California Democrat: ''If anyone ever doubted that there are two Americas, this disaster and our government's shameful response to it have made the division clear for all to see.”
Howard Dean
“Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.”
Benjamin Franklin
“support of the kingdom to its friend the United States during its misfortune.”
George W. Bush
“Only the misfortune understands what fortune is. And knows how to treasure it.”
Kazeronnie Mak
“He will have cruel suffering, loss, injury of the body, heavy affliction, or loss of mind, Or a misfortune coming from the king, or a fearful accusation, or loss of relations, or destruction of treasures, Or lightning-fire will burn his houses; and when his body is destroyed, the fool will go to hell.”
Friedrich Max Muller
“People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.”
William Hazlitt
“Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or ''broken heart,'' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.”
Charlotte P. Gillman
“Misfortune was my god”
Arthur Rimbaud
“No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.”
Alexander Herzen
