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“Unless You Puke, Faint or Die, Keep Going!”
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“The best antidote for crime is justice. The irony we often fail to appreciate is that the more justice people enjoy, the fewer crimes they commit. Crime is the natural offspring of an unjust society.”
Source : Gerry Spence (1989). “With justice for none: destroying an American myth”, Crown
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“American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.”
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“Come to him. He turns no penitent one away. Would you, if you had paid so much in suffering? Would you ever give up? All the doors that are locked against the Lord are locked by us.”
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“She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.”
Source : Dorothy Koomson (2007). “Marshmallows for breakfast”
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“I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power.”
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“Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death (though it can happen), so in that sense the gap between rich and poor has narrowed. But the question isn't whether society is, in some sense, more equal than it was in 1900. It's whether it is radically more unequal than it was in 1970. And of course it is.”
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“Like a bird with broken wing that has traveled through wind for years . . . I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .”
