"You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort."

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Source : "The University Has Become a Factory". Interview with Jack Fincher, Life magazine, February 26, 1965.

Mario Savio

#Rights Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Court Quotes

“My soul, sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes; every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play”
“There are more than 27 million people enslaved in the world today - that's double the amount of people taken from Africa during the entire trans-Atlantic slave trade.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lisa Kristine from May 28, 2014
“We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.”

Source : Pam Muñoz Ryan (2012). “Esperanza Rising”, p.37, Scholastic Inc.
“I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.”
“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
“A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.”

Source : "A little democracy is a dangerous thing - so let's have more of it". www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2006.
“The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers”
“Rich people making their houses bigger in order to make their lives happier wind up hurting their own marriages. There's a deep irony here. Do the couples perceive that irony?”

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