They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved in... what to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child's pleasure in mastery and accomplishment. But they must not do the job for the children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself t...he greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the incre...asingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle- class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Animal liberationists do not minimize the obvious differences between most members of our species and members of other species. Th...e rights to vote, freedom of speech, freedom of worship--none of these can apply to other animals. Similarly, what harms humans may cause much less harm, or even no harm at all, to some ani mals. If I were to confine a herd of cows within the boundaries of the county of, say, Devon, I do not think I would be doing them any harm at all; if, on the other hand, I were to take a group of people and restrict them to the same county, I am sure many would protest that I had harmed them considerably, even if they were allowed to bring their families and friends.... Hence to deny humans the right to travel outside Devon would be to restrict their rights significantly; it would not be a significant restriction of the rights of cows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taft, laughing, "What troubles [brother] Charles is, he is afraid Roosevelt will get the credit of making me President and not him...self." To Charles: "I will agree not to minimize the part you played in making me President if you will agree not to minimize the part Roosevelt played."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory cla...uses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulations secured by diplomatic negotiations. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize the evils likely to arise from such immigration without unnecessary friction and by mutual concessions between self-respecting governments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be suppor...ted. These desires and dreams are not shameful. In supporting them, we are showing solidarity with working people, for whom these are luxuries and not givens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »