"Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution."

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Source : Barbara Jordan, Shelby Hearon (1979). “Barbara Jordan, a self-portrait”, Doubleday Books

Barbara Jordan

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“Weirdly, I was still trying to be the older brother, and trying to get him [ Tom Berninger] to try to be more like me a little bit. Or not be more like me but ... I was frustrated that he sometimes let things stop him in his life, and he let the wind get knocked out of his sails a few times.”

Source : "Matt and Tom Berninger: 'I don't have anything good on the National and I just have myself really drunk'". Interview with David Daley, www.salon.com. April 27, 2014.
“These days I can't tell what I really feel.”

Source : Jackie Kay (2007). “Darling: New & Selected Poems”, Bloodaxe Books Limited
“I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there... I told the stewardess liquor for three... Who are the other two?...Oh, there are no other two”
“When I hear what we call â€˜music,â€™ it seems to me that someone is talking.Â And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships.Â But when I hear traffic, the sound of traffic â€” here on Sixth Avenue, for instance â€” I donâ€™t have the feeling that anyone is talking. Â I have the feeling that sound is acting.Â And I love the activity of sound I donâ€™t need sound to talk to me.”
“Arms control is by definition a rejection of disarmament.”
“TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape”
“We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live.”
“[M]any females would, even assuming complete economic equality between the sexes, prefer residing with males or peddling their ***** on the street, thereby having most of their time for themselves, to spending many hours of their days doing boring, stultifying, non-creative work for somebody else, functioning as less than animals, as machines, or, at best - if able to get a "good" job - co-managing the shitpile. What will liberate women, therefore, from male control is the total elimination of the money-work system, not the attainment of economic equality with men within it.”

Source : Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1967.

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