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“No higher duty, or more solemn responsibility, rests upon this Court than that of translating into living law and maintaining this constitutional shield deliberately planned and inscribed for the benefit of every human being subject to our Constitution-of whatever race, creed or persuasion.”
Source : "Chambers v. Florida, 309 U.S. 227". Writing for the court, 1940.
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“If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace.”
Source : James W. Douglass (2010). “JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters”, p.19, Simon and Schuster
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“I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the God whom she adores. What delight, to be in turns the object and the victor of her remorse! Far be it from me to destroy the prejudices which sway her mind! They will add to my happiness and my triumph. Let her believe in virtue, and sacrifice it to me; let the idea of falling terrify her, without preventing her fall; and may she, shaken by a thousand terrors, forget them, vanquish them only in my arms.”
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“A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.”
Source : Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage
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“For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.”
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“In no way do I want to draw attention to myself.”
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“Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.”
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“Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.”
