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Lee Ranaldo

"This was early '90s and in New York hip-hop was coming on really strong; that was the sort of urban folk music that was almost threatening to eclipse rock music and indie rock music in terms of popularity, which it has certainly gone on to do. But you know, this is the end of the 1980s, beginning of the '90s. The whole independent label thing has really evolved to this incredible point from the early '80s when we started, and there wasn't one record label at all, until a couple people started forming these small labels."

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Lee Ranaldo

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“So I - the thought that I would physically be different was - it's not a thrill, I have to tell you. It's kind of - it brings you up short. But I was able to look at it right away.”
“When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up”
“Surely, in the work of the Lord, it is what we do after we think we have done enough that really counts with him, for that's when the blessings flow.”

Source : Hartman Rector, Jr. (2011). “Already to Harvest”, p.28, Cedar Fort
“The Latino community, they're some of the most loyal fans on the planet.”
“Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.”
“May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty.”
“I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one fish was caught, he was writhing, then he was thrown against the side of the boat. You couldn't disguise what it was. This was what we did to animals to eat them. The animal went from a living, vibrant creature fighting for life to a violent death. I recognized it, as did my brothers and sisters.”
“Although my view is a world-wide one and my area of observation is Europe, the nation closest to my heart is, understandably, my homeland. And it is a fortunate coincidence, fortunate in terms of the explanation of the world, that it is this country which is the clearest example of the playground of destructive development in the whole world.”

Source : "Can Life Prevail?: A Radical Approach to the Environmental Crisis". Book by Pentti Linkola, 2004.

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