Martin Espada famous quotes

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Even the most political poem is an act of faith.
-- Martin Espada

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Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.
-- Martin Espada

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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.
The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.
Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.

Martin Espada famous quotes

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