"We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity."

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Source : "Power Anywhere Where There's People". Fred Hampton's speech at Olivet Church, www.historyisaweapon.com. 1969.

Fred Hampton

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“We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science”
“Peace is impossible, war is improbable.”

Source : Raymond Aron (1997). “Thinking Politically: A Liberal in the Age of Ideology”, p.227, Transaction Publishers
“It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.”
“Merv Griffin, who developed Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, had a great line once. I used to personally answer all the mail that came in to Jeopardy! whether it was favorable or unfavorable, and Merv said, You know how I handle the nasty mail? I said no. He just grabbed it and folded it up and crunched it up and threw it in the wastebasket. He said, I don't bother with it.”
“I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through.”
“A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.”

Source : Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.209, Random House
“There are things I like, there are things I strongly dislike. In my DJ sets and in my production I just gravitate towards what I like.”
“Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation' posters? Well, guess how that translates into Chinese- 'Jonah Wizard Makes Your Ancestors Fat'.”

Source : Gordon Korman (2010). “The Emperor's Code”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.

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