"I'm specifically referring to this certain feeling of sadness, fear, and helplessness that descended on me at the Mexico City protest a day or two after the Narvarte murders. Many of us have grown familiar with that feeling. Every few weeks or so it seems we're hit with some new crime or some new corruption scandal that isn't quite the same as a massacre, but that spawns a feeling of futility and despair in its own way."

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Francisco Goldman

#Sadness Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Despair Quotes

“I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There are screens at the gas station, there are screens at the shopping mall. And they all need content.”
“I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers”

Source : John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Choice is the keynote of self-determinism. To determine anything, you must have the choice to determine. Choice to determine means that you must have the power of decision. Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have indecision, there is an unclarity about time.”
“The day will never come when any Palestinian would be arrested because of his political affiliation or because of resisting the occupation. The file of political detention must be closed.”
“Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.”
“People do fun and interesting things because they're fun and interesting.”

Source : "Wikipedia Co-Founder Jimmy Wales Describes The Site’s Hold-Out On Social Media" By Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2011.
“The depressed don't simply need to feel better. They need a Redeemer who says, "Take heart, my son, my daughter; what you really need has been supplied. Life no longer need be about your goodness, success, righteousness, or failure. I've given you something infinitely more valuable than good feelings: your sins are forgiven."”

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