"The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces."

-- Michael Parenti

#Struggle Quotes #Rights Quotes #Roles Quotes

“You cannot demand your rights, civil or otherwise, if you are unwilling to say what you are.”
“And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the morphlings, or Wiress and Beetee. Others unsure but caught up in the demands of those around them, like Brutus and Enobaria. By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days. You can see the realization of this as the screens begin to pop into blackness. It's too late, though. In the confusion they didn't cut us off in time. Everyone has seen.”
“We live today in a world where most of the really important developments in everything from math and physics and astronomy to public policy and psychology and classical music are so extremely abstract and technically complex and context-dependent that it's next to impossible for the ordinary citizen to feel that they (the developments) have much relevance to her actual life.”
“A police officer wears a uniform. They're sworn to uphold the law. They're public servants. And they should not be above the law.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“From my perspective as a depth psychologist, I see that those who have a connection with story are in better shape and have better prognosis than those to whom story must be introduced.”
“Open office plans, cell phones, constant notifications: these are all things that fight against sustained attention on a task. For some people and some tasks, that doesnâ€™t matter. But for a lot of important work, it matters a lot.”

Source : "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.
“Since very early in my career, I have always did my own stunt fighting.”
“Out of all the airports that are out there only about 5 percent have commercial service.”

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