Joan E. Biren famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Without a visual identity, we have no community, no support network, no movement. Making ourselves visible is a political act, making ourselves visible is a continual process.
-- Joan E. Biren

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There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.
I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.

Joan E. Biren famous quotes

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