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“For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened.”
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“Inequality can be done away with only by establishing a new society, where men and women will enjoy equal rights, resulting from an upheaval in the means of production and in all social relations. Thus, the status of women will improve only with the elimination of the system that exploits them.”
Source : Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr
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“France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.”
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“Everyone says, 'You give birth, you go home, and you have this amazing baby and it's just beautiful'. And I walked in and I just started sobbing.”
Source : "Mama's Boy". Interview with Marshall Heyman, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 04, 2008. 
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“O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)”
Source : William Ernest Henley, “Between The Dusk Of A Summer Night”
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“The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.”
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“The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I do not know if such increased awareness makes us more moral or more efficient. I hope not. I think it makes us more human, and I am quite certain it makes us more difficult to deceive.”
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“Gaining people's trust might be harder than gaining all creation. But, what is harder than gaining people's trust is having to abandon them.”
