"One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being."

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Source : "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker, (Ch. 5), 1938.

Rudolf Rocker

#Courage Quotes #Dignity Quotes #Humans Quotes

“We should not think of poverty eradication as a matter of collecting money and giving it to the poor so much as of reforming the global rules that are disadvantaging the poor and making it impossible for them to fend for themselves.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“The mistakes of the Iraq war are not only tactical and strategic, but historical. It is essentially a war of colonialism, attempted in the post-colonial age.”

Source : "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", January 11, 2007.
“So we are headed for a time when there won't be anything but movies that are essentially made like video games, and actors will become obsolete, and then the big stars will be people who live in Brentwood or wherever it is, and they have a show called, I don't know, "Pool Parties of Brentwood" or something like that.”
“There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.”
“I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived.”
“. . . my pilot pointed to his left front and above, and looking in the direction he pointed, I saw a long dark brown form fairly streaking across the sky. We could see that it was a German machine, and when it got above and behind our middle machine, it dived on it for all the world like a huge hawk on a hapless sparrow.”

Source : James McCudden (2009). “Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps”, p.85, Casemate / Greenhill
“Where once they used to say, 'Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money' - now, maybe EDM is. Come ye lords and princelings of douchedom.”
“You know, my sister sings, my brother plays drums in my band. My whole family is a bunch of musicians.”

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