"The police had a practice of entrapping people. This was done all over the country, but we had a particularly vicious group here in Southern California because of the Hollywood situation. They knew they could get a lot of them. They were shaking down people for thousands in blackmail."

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Source : Source: www.progressive.org

Harry Hay

#Country Quotes #Practice Quotes #California Quotes

“The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.”
“The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who like to define their culture in a paternalistic, authoritarian way, or the large number of Chinese who have their own ideas about freedom.”

Source : "Battling the Information Barbarians". The Wall Street Journal, www.wsj.com. January 29, 2010.
“It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.”
“That the stars guide us, but do not compel us. It is our free will that determines the outcome of all things. God does impose his will on us, rather he makes it known and allows us to choose if we will follow it.”

Source : Kathleen McGowan (2010). “The Poet Prince”, p.140, Simon and Schuster
“If you are afraid of failure, you don't deserve success.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 3, 2012
“And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy.”
“What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.”
“Fear is isolating for those that fear. And I have come to believe that fear is a cruelty to those who are feared.”

Source : "No-Man’s-Land" by Eula Biss, www.believermag.com. February 2008.

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