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Roger Casement

"Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours...then surely it is a braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men."

Source : Roger Casement's speech from the dock, 1916.

Roger Casement

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“One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.”
“More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people.”
“The satisfaction of achieving goals is the greatest thing for me. There is nothing like a great race or ride that gives you an amazing boost. It is very rewarding when you win or do well.”

Source : Source: www.ncwit.org
“My faith, I mean, that's such a personal aspect that a lot of times, of course it's going to come out through the song. But at the same time, I'm not a religious salesman. I feel like God doesn't really need a salesman, and what these songs are are simply my interactions with this life and learning. I guess the bottom line is the songs are really honest, you know what I mean. That faith is going to come through. If the listener is looking for it, that's definitely a part of it.”
“Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.”

Source : "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2012.
“You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.”
“You have to know when to be arrogant. You have to when to be humble. You have to know when to be hard and you have to know when to be soft.”
“For me, when I see movies where I kind of know who the characters are and what the situation is, I get bored. To me, it's, "How do I tell a story that will keep the audience engaged?" A great story does that: it's not exactly what you expect.”

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