"For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future."

-- Andrew Young

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“The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.”
“Falling apart in a 5K is painful, but it's just pain. Falling apart in a marathon, I believe you lose a year of your life. You complete the marathon feeling utterly defeated, knowing that it got the best of you, and you go home and ask your mom if she still loves you.”
“Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never lived. The world as we know it is the product of its geniuses-and there may be evil as well as beneficent genius-and to deny that fact, is to stultify all history, whether it be that of the intellectual or the economic world.”

Source : Norman Robert Campbell (1953). “What is science?”
“I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't make any sense, it's counter intuitive, it's inhuman and it has to stop.”
“I feel really personally connected to all of the songs, so stepping back is really hard.”

Source : "Hamilton Leithauser Gets By With a Little Help". Interview with Aly Comingore, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2014.
“At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.”
“How much more forcefully can I say it? The time has come, and it is long overdue, when Christians and conservatives and all men and women who believe in the birthright of freedom must rise up and reclaim America for Jesus Christ.”

Source : "Character & Destiny: A Nation In Search of Its Soul". Book by D. James Kennedy and Jim Nelson Black (p. 80), September 1994.
“Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.”

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