"If Mumia Abu-Jamal has nothing important to say, why are so many powerful people trying to shut him up?"

-- John Edgar Wideman

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“I'm more worried about you," she said. "You and trouble..." "yeah." She heard the smile in his voice. "We're like that.”
“A touching and compassionate yet completely professional account of the psychological--indeed spiritual--dimensions of the doctorDpatient relationship that make the difference between fixing and healing.”
“Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.”
“Quite simply, there can be no popular sovereignty without a real belief in the value of government. If government does not assume and carry out public responsibilities, less accountable institutions such as the corporation will do the job in their own self-interest.”
“The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.”

Source : John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.476
“I remain persuaded of the inevitable and necessary complementarity of man and woman. Love, imperfect as it may be in its content and expression, remains the natural link between these two beings. To love one another! If only each partner could move sincerely towards the other! If each could only melt into the other! If each would only accept the other's qualities instead of listing his faults! If each could only correct bad habits without harping on about them!”

Source : Mariama Bâ (1989). “So Long a Letter”, p.88, Heinemann
“Be noble in every thought And in every deed!”
“A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.”

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