"A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection."

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Source : Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

Crystal Eastman

#Names Quotes #Tyrants Quotes #Protection Quotes

“Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.”
“To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for”

Source : Alexandra Ripley, Margaret Mitchell (1992). “Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind”
“If you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you.”

Source : Song: Dear Landlord, Album: John Wesley Harding, 1967
“People in the East get a very skewed sense of America as this enormously rapaciously sexual place, this place where you have rappers and you have Donald Trump and things like that, which leads to a lot of confusion.”
“You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your big dream regardless of what anyone says. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture and even you can't see it all.”
“Have fun. Especially while you're still young, you gotta keep the spark up. Even when things get boring, just remember to have fun.”
“To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.”
“To the man on crutches, dressed in camouflage, who stole my wallet ... you can hide but you can't run.”

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