"You donâ€™t fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. Weâ€™re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We're not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism. Weâ€™re gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Socialism is the people. If youâ€™re afraid of socialism, youâ€™re afraid of yourself."

-- Fred Hampton

#Fighting Quotes #Fire Quotes #Racism Quotes

“We have our core values as a family, and we've kept them, that's our number one priority is making sure our kids know that so they also will have the same values, no matter what circumstances come your way.”
“Shortcuts aren't always.”
“How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. The Awful Aunty took me 10 days.”
“The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.”
“In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.”

Source : Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.101, University of Georgia Press
“My refrigerator is full of kale and greens. I can't imagine something greasy, or eating meat.”
“And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other. â€œWhy didnâ€™t you just . . . fade?â€ Gaia demanded plaintively. â€œYou hit me,â€ Nemesis said. It was a little boyâ€™s voice coming from Caineâ€™s mouth. â€œAnd thatâ€™s not okay.”
“Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.”

Source : Henry Jenkins (2006). “Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide”, p.247, NYU Press

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