"For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly."

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Source : "An Open Letter to Chris Brown" by Kevin Powell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2011.

Kevin Powell

#Past Quotes #Keys Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.”
“There are a lot of other terrorist targets we ought to be focusing on. Well, there is Syria, for example, which is pumping through - because of Iran, is pumping weapons on into Hezbollah and so forth - which is then producing a lot of agony in Palestine and in Israel. We ought to be doing a bit to try to stop that.”
“When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.”
“Better halfe a loafe than no bread.”

Source : William Camden, John Philipot (1636). “Remaines concerning Britaine, their languages, names, surnames: allusions ...”, p.293
“The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.”
“A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support”

Source : FaceBook post by Talib Kweli from Apr 23, 2012
“Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.”

Source : Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1993). “Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy”, p.206, Oxford University Press on Demand
“A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law.”

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