“Political correctness is a poison to our security and defenses. It imposes a willful blindness, both at the macro level when unwilling to engage with radical Islamism or whatever you want to call it – if you’re not willing to call it what it is – and at the micro level, at the street level.” – Pete Hegseth

“Its Ninety Nine percent word play how you phrase your words determines how hands on you need to be.” – James D. Wilson

“People have said, “Don’t cry” to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is, “I’m too uncomfortable when you show your feelings. Don’t cry.” I’d rather have them say, “Go ahead and cry. I’m here to be with you.” – Fred Rogers AKA Mr. Rogers Neighborhood

“Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.” – A. Bartlett Giamatti

“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say it’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.” – Fred Rogers AKA Mr. Rogers Neighborhood

“So, I look for the best and am prepared for the opposite.” – Marcus Aurelius

“Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.” – Fred Rogers AKA Mr. Rogers Neighborhood

“To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It’s asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It’s one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live.” – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.” – Fred Rogers AKA Mr. Rogers Neighborhood

“Friends are for life; others are just acquaintances.” – Everybody Rides

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