"Most Jewish feminists and gays that I know remain angry and frustrated by Jewish progressives. Deeply committed to progressive causes, frequently in the vanguard of political action, Jewish feminist and gays find ourselves fighting for the rights of others without the secure knowledge that others will fight for us."

-- Irena Klepfisz

#Fighting Quotes #Gay Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Beginning in the sixties, but getting strong during the seventies and eighties, everybody was sort of Miles Davis and Chick Corea and the jazz guys on the west coast and east coast in America, and then in Switzerland and lots of groups in England and elsewhere, like here in Brazil. We were all under a heavy influence of technological gadgets and changes that we used as elements to produce and create music.”
“"Easy" is a word that's used to describe other people's jobs.”

Source : David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried (2010). “ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever”, p.266, Random House
“My dream is for people around the world to look up and to see Canada like a little jewel sitting at the top of the continent.”
“Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims of Iraq who now seek to live democratically is not a mistake. In the long, long history of the Middle East, this breakthrough may one day be ranked as a dramatic turning point in regional history.”
“The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.”

Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.13
“Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.”
“Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.”
“Revolution does not mean torrents of blood, the taking of the Winter Palace, and so on. Revolution means a radical transformation of society's institutions. In this sense, I certainly am a revolutionary.”

Source : Sulak Sivaraksa (1999). “Global Healing: Essays and Interviews on Structural Violence, Social Development and Spiritual Transformation”, Thai Inter-Religious Commission for Development

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