"This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy."

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Source : Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.37, Macmillan

Ishmael Beah

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“Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.”
“...to make the world safe for democracy.”
“The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.”
“I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.”
“If thy faith have no doubts, thou has just cause to doubt thy faith; and if thy doubts have no hope, thou hast just reason to fear despair; when therefore thy doubts shall exercise thy faith, keep thy hopes firm to qualify thy doubts; so shall thy faith be secured from doubts; so shall thy doubts be preserved from despair.”
“Better world. Better life for everybody, every worker. Poor kids oughta be able to go anyplace their brains will take them. Not where Daddy or Mommy's pocketbooks can send them. Everybody oughta have health care, everybody oughta have some retirement security, every American. Every one. Everybody oughta have a decent good job. That's what I believe in, and that's what I fight every day to try to achieve.”

Source : "Richard Trumka, American". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 21, 2011.
“When you have kids you want to be able to go to movies and take the family too, and actually all enjoy it together. I don't think there are that many great, live action family movies that everybody can enjoy.”
“One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.”

Source : Broadside Magazine (1962), later quoted in James E. Perone "Songs of the Vietnam Conflict" (p. 19), 2001.

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