"The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy."

-- Benjamin Franklin

#Rights Quotes #Law Quotes #Prejudice Quotes

“I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.”

Source : Charles Olson (1993). “Selected Poems of Charles Olson”, p.101, Univ of California Press
“...The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists......Keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females, too, until the social construct known as the white race is destroyed. Not deconstructed, but destroyed.”

Source : "When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories". Book by Bernestine Singley, harvardmagazine.com. 2002.
“In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.”
“I get to sing a great song called "Proud of your boy" which was by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman and they were so hurt when it had to be cut from the film [Aladdin]. They were not happy. For the sake of the film, they had to streamline everything.”

Source : Source: www.blackfilm.com
“I think Jeremiah is for our times. But whether the church in the west will listen to the Word of God today any more than in the chaos of 7th century BC middle east... Only God knows.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.”
“People are disappointed if you're not entertaining and to be entertaining often means to be drunk.”
“When water isn't rippled, it is naturally still. When a mirror isn't clouded, it is clear of itself. So the mind is not to be cleared; get rid of what muddles it, and its clarity will spontaneously appear. Pleasure need not be sought; get rid of what pains you, and pleasure is naturally there.”

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