"My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office."

-- B. Traven

#Book Quotes #Men Quotes #Office Quotes

“The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon ourselves; they are lost unless they drive our sluggish wills forward in the direction of their highest ideas.”
“Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?”

Source : Ferdinand Edralin Marcos (1982). “The New Philippine Republic: A Third World Approach to Democracy”
“I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.”
“Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.”
“I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.”
“On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.”
“The CIA is absolutely out of control. The CIA has been on a killing spree... The CIA has become a death squad and to see these films [ like Zero Dark Thirty] get so much acclaim at the time when the CIA is in its rogue killing phase is very disturbing.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.”

Source : "Five questions for John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz, www.hbook.com. August 8, 2016.

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