"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it."

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Source : Malcolm X (1990). “Malcolm X on Afro-American History”, Pathfinder Press

Malcolm X

#Inspirational Quotes #Peace Quotes #Patriotic Quotes

“When women get together, they tell stories. This is how it has always been. Telling stories is our way of saying who we are, where we have come from, what we know, and where we might be headed.”

Source : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.9, Simon and Schuster
“The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.”
“There are some films that arrive here from the international festival circuit almost incandescent with self-importance. They hover into the cinema in a kind of floating trance at how challenging and moving they are. They are films with a profound reluctance to get over themselves. They look up at the sceptical observer with the saucer-eyed saintliness of a baby seal in culling season, or a charity mugger smilingly wishing a nice day on the retreating back of a passer-by. One such is Babel.”
“I really want younger audience members to see kids in their early 20's playing Frank's music and to be inspired to take things to a higher level themselves.”
“Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.”
“Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.”

Source : George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.257, Cosimo, Inc.
“Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve.”

Source : Scott Cunningham (2012). “Living Wicca: A Further Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.13, Llewellyn Worldwide
“If we reconstructed human spirituality painstakingly, we would end up with a mangnificent tree whose branches go in so many directions, yet all trying to touch the heavens.”

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