"In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and if this has been done on one subject, it has doubtless been done on others. A good many women, I think, learned a wholesome distrust of press reports during the suffrage struggle."

-- Alice Stone Blackwell

#Struggle Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Agency Quotes

“The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.”

Source : Cesare Beccaria (marchese di) (1963). “On crimes and punishments”, Bobbs-Merrill Company
“It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one's life for love.”

Source : "Mind/Body Problems" by John Updike, www.newyorker.com. January 26, 2004.
“Thinking that people are supposed to do or be anything other than what they are is like saying that the tree over there should be the sky. I investigated that and found freedom.”
“I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people.”
“As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons "in history." History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am.”
“If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb.”
“Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
“Unfortunately, what is happening now in our central regions is evidence of this global climate change, because we have never in our history faced such weather conditions in the past.”

Source : "Has 'denying' won?". "The Science Show" with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. June 24, 2017.

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