"The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order."

-- Michael Parenti

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“Stop waiting for others to change. Recognize that every person has the right to be whatever they choose-even if you irritate yourself about it.”
“Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.”
“My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love. But I - I knew. I knew she did.”

Source : "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.
“Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.”
“The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But when a people chooses the nonviolent path, it is all too often the case that hardly anyone pays attention. It is tragic that people have to suffer and die and the television cameras have to deliver the pictures to people's homes every day before the world at large admits there is a problem.”
“This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.”
“The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an absorbing one someone will listen.”
“Everybody hates death, fears death, but only those, the believers who know the life after death and the reward after death, would be the ones who will be seeking death.”

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