"The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing."

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Bruce Cockburn

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“Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.”

Source : "Investing in Skills to Build a Secure Middle Class" by Thomas E. Perez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2014.
“We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.”
“I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.”
“We, as citizens or members of people's organisations, can preserve and nourish basic principles needed for long-term efforts aimed at transforming a totalitarian and war-torn society into a democratic one.”

Source : Katarina Kruhonja's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1998.
“World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.”
“The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?”
“I remember my wife in white.' It just made people weep to hear it...Everybody just thought it was the saddest sentence that was ever written. And it didn't matter if I never wrote another word. This one sentence had put an end to the need for any future sentences. I had said it all.”
“As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.”

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