"All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice."

-- Mary Travers

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“Had he expected me to hump her leg?”
“[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.”
“Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real condition of children in America, however, see a very different picture-one in which children are victims of terrible discrimination, prejudice, and abuse. They need protection. But the protection they need most is to have the protection of civil rights, so that they can be regarded as full persons under the law.”
“In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.”
“Think of me, think of me fondly When we've said goodbye Remember me once in a while Please promise me, you'll try... Recall those days, look back on all those times Think of those things we'll never do There will never be a day When I won't think of you... Can it be? Can it be Christine... Long ago, it seems so long ago How young and innocent we were She may not remember me But I remember her”

Source : "The Phantom of the Opera". Musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, 1986.
“The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.”
“The challenge is to become part of the struggle, to make a positive difference.”
“Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation,”

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