"For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people."

-- Linda Chavez

#White Quotes #People Quotes #Black Quotes

“Lest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins - or which is which), the very first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom - Lucifer.”

Source : Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.9, Vintage
“We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained.”
“I deserve to be happy. I'm sad it took me so long to get that. But I get it now.”
“There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.”
“You know, and I don't say this, I'll say as someone who lived in Israel for a long time, let me call myself someone who spent six or seven years in Jerusalem, we don't need any more Americans flying over to fix things. They need to fix it. I'm someone who fell in love with the city and fell in love with a place, and has high hopes for everyone there, the good people on both sides.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. In summer, we work hard to make a tidy garden, bordered by pansies with rows or clumps of columbine, petunias, bleeding hearts. Then we find ourselves longing for the forest, where everything has the appearance of disorder; yet we feel peaceful there.”

Source : Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.6, Open Road Media
“The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.”
“I am a great supporter of bionics and this diversity in nature, this genetic diversity, is not available for free. We, as industrialized nations, have already sinned enough, and we have significantly reduced biodiversity in our countries. But now we expect the poor, less developed countries of the world to preserve their rainforests, mangrove forests and coral landscapes for us at no charge.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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