"The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife."

-- Barbara Ehrenreich

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“It feels a lot colder when you're shoveling snow than when you're building a snow fort.”
“The workers should take over the factories, and shut down Boeingâ€™s profit-making machine,”
“When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.”
“God's mercies are new every morning. Receive them.”
“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”
“The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and losing the battle for his soul; the conviction that human life is nothing more than an uncertain struggle between heaven and hell; the faith in two opposed entities, Satan and Christ - all this was bound to engender those internal discords in which the soul, excited by the incessant fighting, stimulated as it were by the constant promises and threats, ends up by giving in and prostitutes itself to whichever of the two combatants has been more obstinate in its pursuit.”
“Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.”
“Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war, only patriots - or traitors.”

Source : Last public speech before his death, Chicago, Illinois, May 1, 1861.

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