"The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister."

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Emma Goldman

#Mother Quotes #Brother Quotes #Children Quotes

“It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.”
“The nice girl makes the mistake of being available all the time.”
“I wasn't sued out of medicine, I wasn't arbitrated out of the profession.”
“John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.”
“I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.”
“I MUST go to what desperately frightens me -- the chance of failure.”

Source : "Actress and Activist". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. July 4, 2008.
“Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.”
“The "norm" for humanity is love. Brutality is an aberration. We are not sinners by nature. We learn to be bad. We are taught to stray from our good paths. We are made to be crazy by other people who are also crazy and who draw for us a map of the world which is ugly, negative, fearful, and crazy.”

Source : Jack D. Forbes (2011). “Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism”, p.17, Seven Stories Press

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