We are a nation that seeks out solutions and refuses to ignore challenges.
Chris Chocola

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
Pamela Hansford Johnson

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.
Mark Van Doren

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.
Richard von Weizsaecker

With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
Twyla Tharp

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Thomas Carlyle