"I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Chelsea Manning

#Meaningful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Demand Quotes

“We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.”
“Cristal go by the cases, wait hold up that was racist I would prefer the Aces, ain't no different when you taste it. A 40 ounce to chase it, that's just an understatement.”
“You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.”
“Curiosity and listening [are the principles to an excellent interview]. I never go into an interview with a dedicated list of questions in which I will not deviate. You must be curious about the subject and listen to his answer and ask the next question off that rather than the next question on your list.”
“A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.”
“[Sweets Edison] was one of the greatest stylists in Jazz of all time. And on top of that, when you listen to him, you say 'yes, that's Sweets' and you automatically smile. This is really unique. He changed the way how to play this instrument.”
“The poet should touch our heart by showing his own”

Source : Sir Leslie Stephen (1919). “Hours in a Library: Charlotte Brontë. Charles Kingsley. Godwin and Shelley. Gray and his school. Sterne. Country books. George Eliot. Autobiography. Carlyle's ethics. The State trials. Coleridge”
“We're gonna put $456 million to go to an island of 50 people? You know...The bridge to nowhere. And this is right after Katrina happened. And so I offer an amendment to take that money from Alaska and repair the stuff in Louisiana.”

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