"Stand with me. Stand and fight. I am one, and we would be two. Two more might join and we would be four. When four more join we will be eight. We will be eight people fighting whom others will join. And then more people. And more. Stand and fight."

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Source : Derrick Jensen (2010). “Lives Less Valuable: A Novel”, p.200, PM Press

Derrick Jensen

#Fighting Quotes #Eight Quotes #Two Quotes

“We should recognize that schools will never solve the bedrock problems of education because the problems are problems of families, of cultural pressures that the schools reflect and thus cannot really remedy.”
“There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.”

Source : The Daily Telegraph, May 23, 1989.
“I am in love with cars; I love anything that moves,”
“Kids at skate parks will step up and challenge me to a game of Skate, but I'm over that, I really don't care. I'm all about participating, and I'm all about being a part of this scene, but there's certain vibes I just don't get along with.”
“Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?”
“There are times when born hollandaise heads, as well as nouveaux turbot freaks and recherche escargotphiles alike crave the saignet abundance of a New York steak.”
“I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.”

Source : "People think the book is a love-letter to Africa, but really it is a love-letter to my mother". Interview with Louisa Young, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2002.
“Hospitality should have no other nature than love.”

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