"I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in response to the Iraq War. The first anti-Bush protest in Atlanta was the first protest that I'd ever been to, and I helped organize the school walkout when I was a junior. It was a really solidifying moment."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Cecily McMillan

#War Quotes #School Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.”
“If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record”
“I think there is some misunderstandin g that has been going around as everybody wants to support me. But, still I'd like to thank all my fans for loving me so much.”
“I change the world, the world changes me.”
“In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.”

Source : "The Firm, the Market, and the Law (Note on the problem of social costs)". Book by Ronald Coase (p. 185), 1988.
“Mistakes were made long ago. It is someone else's fault. We can't be held responsible, but we are very sorry.”

Source : Kyle Minor (2008). “In the Devil's Territory: Stories”
“No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.”
“Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to give rest had no tendency to prove them. But he had been endeavoring to give a more active and positive help than this to the cause of what he deemed pure religion.”

Source : "Mary Everest Boole, Collected Works" by Mary Everest Boole, edited by ‎Eleanor Meredith Cobham, (p. 40), 1931.

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