"If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity."

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Source : "Can Jean-François Copé save France from anti-Muslim extremism?" by Angelique Chrisafis, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2011.

Jean-Francois Cope

#Your Smile Quotes #Identity Quotes #Denial Quotes

“What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially available to all countries. No underdeveloped country in the Third World is disadvantaged simply because it began the growth process later than Europe, nor are the established industrial powers capable of blocking the development of a latecomer, provided that country plays by the rules of economic liberalism.”

Source : Francis Fukuyama (2006). “End of History and the Last Man”, p.103, Simon and Schuster
“You can plan for a hundred years. But you don't know what will happen the next moment.”
“Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.”
“I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.”

Source : John Bell Hood (1996). “Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies”, p.58, U of Nebraska Press
“The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.”
“The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading.”
“Obviously I attach myself so much to my songwriting. If I didn't attach myself to that being my sole attribute, then I would be fine with those.”
“The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.”

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