"If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?"

-- Jim Hightower

#Matter Quotes #Speak Quotes

“Colin stared at the officer. â€œThorne, you scare me. Iâ€™m not ashamed to say it.”
“Given the racist and patriarchal patterns of the state, it is difficult to envision the state as the holder of solutions to the problem of violence against women of color. However, as the anti-violence movement has been institutionalized and professionalized, the state plays an increasingly dominant role in how we conceptualize and create strategies to minimize violence against women.”
“Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play?”
“Im not a perfect Muslim; I think none of us are perfect human beings. I do the five pillars of Islam, you know, I pray five times a day.”
“No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.”
“Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.”
“The FBI wants Apple to write software code to help it break into the iPhone. Apple doesn't want to say this. Andrew Crocker, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, a digital civil rights group, says the government can't make you say what you don't believe. He looks to a Supreme Court case that began in New Hampshire.”

Source : "Apple's First Amendment Argument". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 26, 2016.
“Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.”

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