"Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist."

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Andrew Vachss

#Hero Quotes #People Quotes #Journalism Quotes

“Teaching is performance art.”

Source : Kate Clinton (2012). “Don't Get Me Started”, p.35, Bywater Books
“We live in a world in which it's harder to talk about the American in the singular, so we're a multi. We have several different people who represent the United States, so in that sense whiteness, the salience, the importance of whiteness is kind of tamping down some.”
“Forget about the business outlook... be on the outlook for business.”
“Civilizationâ€™s shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.”
“The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us.”
“My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.”
“We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on.”
“I've been a soldier, I've been a bunch of little girls, all sorts of roles that I would not have been able to be with on camera context because I just don't look the part.”

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