"The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class."

-- C. L. R. James

#Class Quotes #Organization Quotes #Political Quotes

“I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls”
“We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.”

Source : James Kavanaugh (1990). “Search: A Guide for Those Who Dare to Ask of Life Everything Good and Beautiful”, Steven J Nash Pub
“Black does not appear in the rainbow of hope.”
“And keeps the palace of the soul.”

Source : Edmund Waller, “On Tea”
“Farmers are the only indispensable people on the face of the earth.”
“Reading... there have been millions and billions and billions and gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There's no new problem you could have - with your parents, with school, with a bully, with anything. There's no problem you can have that someone hasn't already solved and wrote about it in a book.”
“The heart is never neutral.”
“I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There's a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There's a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home.”

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