"The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck and Tom and the controversy surrounding [Mark] Twain's use of them and from my own passionate interest in civil rights, animal rights, and the right of Earth to survive humankind's reprehensible neglect of its stewardship."

-- Norman Lock

#Animal Quotes #Rights Quotes #Stories Quotes

“I could discern clearly, even at that early age, the essential difference between people who are kind to dogs and people who really love them.”

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (1867). “The confessions of a lost dog”, p.19
“None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us.”
“When your effort results in the desired effect, then you have worked.”
“The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.”
“My bedtime was 8 P.M. But on Cosby nights, I got to stay up until 8:30. Real big deal. This is when they could afford to do a completely different title sequence in TV every year. I always looked forward to that. It was like a mini musical at the top of the show. My favorite was the Top Hat fancy version.”
“Camo never goes out of style as far as I'm concerned.”

Source : "The Coveteur: Joy Bryant". www.elle.com. April 19, 2013.
“What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.”
“It isn't a band. It's bigger than a band. It's a lifestyle”

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