"I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity."

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Tahar Ben Jelloun

#World Quotes #Needs Quotes #Injustice Quotes

“Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you only have a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range.”
“I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.”
“Guns don't kill people, husbands who come home early from work kill people”
“Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.”
“The art of pleasing is the art of deception.”

Source : "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.
“The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.”
“I can never unlove you. I'll just love you in a different way now.”
“Each one of us has a comfort zone. The problem comes when we are unwilling to leave it.”

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