"True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it."

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Source : bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.229, Routledge

Bell Hooks

#Pain Quotes #People Quotes #Resistance Quotes

“The Chinese, the Russians, the Nazis and Saddam Hussein all agree! Gun Control Works!”
“We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.”
“It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.”
“The way forward for Africa is investment.”
“I bought my first camera to photograph my brother's children. I learned a lot from that experience. The value of innocence and of not being focused on yourself, and I have to say that these things have remained with me to this day. I can immediately feel when someone is putting on a camera face.”
“Iran wants the money. And I don't believe they want it for roads or hospitals or schools, I believe they want it for more terror.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“Only you yourself can be your liberator!”

Source : Wilhelm Reich (1948). “Listen, Little Man!: A Document from the Archives of the Orgone Institute”
“So it's true, then, being in love is like hitting the sweepstakes. It doesn't happen to everyone, and there's no way of saying who's going to win, but it changes your life when it does.”

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