"Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that."

-- Miriam Makeba

#People Quotes #Political Quotes #World Quotes

“A frame of references consisting of learning patterns of behaviours, values, assumptions and meaning which are shared to varying degrees of interest, importance and awareness with members of one group.”

Source : H. Ned Seelye (1995). “Experiential Activities for Intercultural Learning”, p.16, Hachette UK
“Spiritual connection does not mean romance”
“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”

Source : Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy
“While obsession with oneâ€™s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.”
“It's changed dramatically in our lifetimes. Communism is gone, so now the global war is framed in religious terms. Fundamentalist religion is rampant on all sides of this war. It casts a very dark shadow over non-fundamentalist religion.”
“Finlay was the godfather of a problem that's rampant everywhere today. He called the people who made his work 'collaborators'... nowadays it's 'fabricators'... talented people who are grateful, desperate and thwarted. There's plenty of them.”
“There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.”
“I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.”

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