"Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political "Copperhead Road" is isn't listening very well."

-- Steve Earle

#Political Quotes #Listening Quotes #Wells Quotes

“You will begin to see your life as an opportunity to share the special gift you alone can bestow upon the world.”
“The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.”
“I only travel with a carry-on suitcase in most instances.”
“I have to say, the Campus Crusade tactic struck me as disingenuous. They rented a hotel ballroom next to a nightclub and set up a fake "party" inside, complete with security guards and flashing lights. When you walked in, instead of drink specials and trance music, they gave you gospel tracts.”
“Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.”

Source : Alexander Berkman (1912). “Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist”
“Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.”
“People never know how strong is their lust for being cheated.”
“For women there are, undoubtedly, great difficulties in the path, but so much the more to overcome. First, no woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?”

Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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