"The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States."

-- Leonard Peltier

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“Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love.”
“One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls Man the only animal that soils its own nest. Every animal soils its nest with the products of its metabolism if unable to move away. Space technology gives us for the first time the freedom to leave our nest, at least for certain functions, in order not to soil it.”
“Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive preachers, when critically examined, turn out to be false.”
“Before I started modeling, I had never been out of the country, and now I feel like I'm out of the country at least a few times a month, if not once a week.”
“The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need.”

Source : "Why I fled North Korea" By Hyeonseo Lee, www.cnn.com. April 14, 2013.
“It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.”
“Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write. I write entirely to find out what Iâ€™m thinking, what Iâ€™m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”
“Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.”

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