"From my most unnoticed actions, my most veiled writing from these alone will I be understood."

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Source : "Hidden Things". Poem by C.P. Cavafy,

C.P. Cavafy

#Writing Quotes #Action Quotes #Unnoticed Quotes

“It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.”
“But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery - the wage slaves - expect salvation - if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.”

Source : Address of August Spies. "The Accused the Accusers: Famous Speeches of the Chicago Anarchists in Court", www.chicagohistoryresources.org. 1886.
“I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.”
“I don't think anybody's ever notified that they were sentenced to an extra two years because their recidivism score had been high, or notified that this beat cop happened to be in their neighborhood checking people's pockets for pot because of a predictive policing algorithm. That's just not how it works.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear.”
“The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.”
“My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.”
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.”

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