The most memorable quotes in the Chattanooga Times Free Press for April 5-10.
“He’s got some great ideas. The problem is the funding. I am for the programs. I can’t say I am for a tax increase.”
— School board member Steve Highlander on Superintendent Rick Smith’s proposed 40-cent property tax increase
“If you don’t know where you’re from, you don’t know where you’re going.”
— Jackie Ross, of Athens, Ala., a Native American dancer at the Pow Wow on the River
“You’ll have a woman who waits in the ER all day and leaves with an enormous stack of papers she can’t read, still not knowing what happened to her Day after day after day you see nonsensical approaches to minor illness that occur primarily because of limited access and cultural and language barriers.”
— Dr. Kelly Arnold, founder of a clinic for Spanish-speaking patients
“The people that fought this war were all Americans, many of them fathers and sons, brothers. … There are legacies of the war that are continuing, but look at the changes since then. We’re not on the brink of war with ourselves.”
— Mike Kreger, of Maryland, visiting Point Park ahead of the 150th anniversary of Lee’s surrender at Appomattox
“Learning this stuff changed me. It’s made me think about how we treat each other.”
— CSAS fifth-grader Noah Akin, on his grade’s just completed study of World War II