“Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.”– Gary Locke Related Quotes “All his life he had controlled machines, bent nature and the forces of nature to man and man’s needs. The human race had slowly evolved until it was in a position to operate things, run them as it saw fit. Now all at once it had been plunged back down the ladder again, prostrate before a Power against which they were children.”— Philip K. Dick “He snaked an arm around her waist and pulled her into him with an unyielding strength. She’d been unmistakably seized.”— Elizabeth SaFleur “Adversity tests what the soul can endure.”— Lailah Gifty Akita