"History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery."

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Source : Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1949). “Labor's Own William Z. Foster: A Communist's Fifty Years of Working-class Leadership and Struggle”, New York : New Century Publishers

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

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“The purpose of life is joy! When you're in joy, you attract the highest and best in every area of your life. Joy increases to the exact degree that you deliberately increase your good thoughts, good words, and good actions. I've found in my life that the easiest way to increase my joy is to religiously practice gratitude until I'm a gratitude machine!”
“As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.”
“It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.”
“We were interviewing an author, and we started talking about how so many of them - Salinger, Shaw, Fitzgerald - were really an odd bunch. They put a barrier around themselves, and not many people got through it. This was the spark that I really latched onto - someone who could break through the barrier. Of course [FINDING FORRESTER] really began to take shape when I began to wonder, what if it was a young person?”
“I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.”
“Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.”
“You're so good at helping everybody else, I think you're in danger of leaving yourself out of your own life.”
“I'm a pretty open book.”

Source : "Q&A: Emily VanCamp Talks 'Revenge,' Her Billboard Shock & Zombies". Access Hollywood Interview, www.accesshollywood.com. September 21, 2011.

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