"We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed."

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Tariq Ramadan

#Sides Quotes #Needs Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“I'm a giant softy, for sure, but I honestly think these days it's probably considered more masculine to be emotionally connected.”
“You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need”
“As the Hindu gods are 'immortal' only in a very particular sense - for they had born and they die - they experience most of the great human dilemmas and often seem to differ from mortals in a few trivial details... and from demons even less. Yet they are regarded by the Hindus as a class of beigns by definition totally different from any other; they are symbols in a way that no human beign, however 'archetypal' his life story, can ever be. They are actors playing parts that are real only for us; they are masks behind which we see our own faces.”
“Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.”
“The usual relationship between an artist and his painting is like the relationship with the father, or a husband's with his wife. But mine is a relationship with a stranger... with the chance acquaintance.”
“I would tend to say that I do what I do as well as possible and that most people don't.”
“He gives me a conflicted look and touches his lips to my forehead, right between my eyebrows. I close my eyes. I don't understand this, whatever it is. But I don't want to ruin it, so I say nothing. He doesn't move; he just stays there with his mouth pressed to my skin, and I stay there with my hands on his waist, for a long time.”
“I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”

Source : First Inaugural Speech as Governor of Alabama, January 1963.

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