"It's important for me to go back into the ghetto, where I'm from. I still get my oxygen from there. I don't live in the ghetto but every time I go back, I'm seeing the same things that I lived. That's one of the things I mean when I say, "My feet back onto the ground.""

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Source : Source: www.gq.com

Jimmy Cliff

#Mean Quotes #Ghetto Quotes #Oxygen Quotes

“The great moral question of the 21st century is this: if all knowing, all culture, all art, all useful information can be costlessly given to everyone at the same price that it is given to anyone; if everyone can have everything, anywhere, all the time, why is it ever moral to exclude anyone?”

Source : "Eben Moglen: The dotCommunist Manifesto". Eben Moglen's speech at the Howard W. Odum Institute for Social Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, November 8, 2001.
“I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.”
“Trouble is one of God's great servants because it reminds us how much we continually need the Lord.”

Source : Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held and abandoned, images formed and shattered, God-fearing Jew, God-denying Jew, passionate and indifferent, hero and villain, yea-sayer, nay-sayer.”

Source : Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books
“An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God.”
“Young people, especially, are looking for religion so desperately that they are inventing new ones. They should not have to invent new ones; the old religions are pretty good.”
“I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.”
“There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters”

Source : Daniel Webster, James Rees (1839). “The beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: selected and arranged, with a critical essay on his genius and writings”, p.30

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