"If you look at social movements in Latin America, there are spaces where alternative politics are thought about on the ground, at the grassroots level, but they are always under threat. The problem in North Africa and the Middle East is the politics of oil. It means that the spaces for truly grassroots politics, involving those masses of people excluded from high politics, are very quickly closed down. They are not really allowed any kind of autonomy to develop, and that seems to be the real problem, which gets us back to the neo-colonial relationship."

-- Nigel Gibson

#Real Quotes #Latin Quotes #Mean Quotes

“Friendship, trust, honor, respect, admiration, this whole experience has been such a revelation.”
“The spirit of revelation is available to every person who receives by proper priesthood authority the saving ordinances of baptism by immersion for the remission of sins and the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost - and who is acting in faith to fulfill the priesthood injunction to 'receive the Holy Ghost.'”
“He certainly seems like the perfect guy but none of that matters if he's not the perfect guy for you.”

Source : Lauren Weisberger (2008). “Chasing Harry Winston: A Novel”, p.250, Simon and Schuster
“How many evangelism programs have you encountered in which sharing the gospel assumes no relationship with the customer and Jesus is sold like soap?”

Source : Reggie McNeal (2009). “The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons
“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.”
“For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to save a couple of cents on Cheetos seems so, well, old economy.”
“I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning”
“Self-defence, self-confidence, discipline and self control. The values you learn are priceless.”

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