"Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear."

-- John Armstrong

#Hope Quotes #Evil Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“I remember how, at first, I had felt the tension in his lips, as if he was trying to make a barrier between us - then they had relaxed, parted slightly. And that's when I had known he wanted to kiss me, wanted to give in. That little parting of the lips, the little sigh that came out... I would hear that sigh forever. That little, little sound when the whole world seemed to open up.”
“In the gun game, we are the most hunted. The river of blood that washes the streets of our nation flows mostly from the bodies of our black children,”

Source : Harry Belafonte’s Speech Accepting NAACP Spingarn Medal, www.democracynow.org. February 18, 2013.
“We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end”

Source : "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act II, 1835.
“I've learnt that the world over, everyone's essentially the same. We are all trying to have a nice time and get along with things.”
“Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.”

Source : "It's Time We Called the Declaration of Independence's Bluff" by Charles P.Pierce, www.esquire.com. July 4, 2016.
“Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.”
“It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.”

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