"I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts."

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Source : "Hugh Masekela: 'I don't think I have the power to forgive'". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2012.

Hugh Masekela

#Uprising Quotes #Culture Quotes #Way Quotes

“I am compelled to continuously see the bright side. It is in my DNA. My kids look at me and say: 'Mom, you're so happy!' And I do feel happy. I feel joyful inside. I can't explain it.”
“Evidence of warming is not evidence that the cause is anthropogenic.”

Source : Siegfried Fred Singer, Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, Science and Environmental Policy Project (2008). “Nature, not human activity, rules the climate: summary for policy makers of the report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change”
“The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of righ.”
“When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.”
“Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.”
“In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.”

Source : Evening Standard, May 9, 1989.
“I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.”

Source : Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press
“Call me old-fashioned, but I thought the one battle we feminists won fair and square was to convince at least those left of centre that gender roles are made up. They are not real. We play at them. We develop traditional masculine or feminine traits by being indoctrinated, not because we are biologically programmed to behave in those ways.”

Source : "Gender benders, beware" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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