"A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement."

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Source : "The People Speak: Democracy is not a Spectator Sport". Book by Colin Firth (p. 226), September 13, 2012.

Jimmy Reid

#Race Quotes #Self Quotes #Silence Quotes

“Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.”
“You know, Salma Hayek is a great cook, and she's a friend.. She's an amazing cook. If she opened up a restaurant, I would so get in on the coattails.”
“Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.”
“Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal.”
“There is but one path. We must kill them all.”
“If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.”
“Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.”

Source : Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.48, Canongate Books
“Appearing in 'Legally Blonde' has helped me find my inner girl, although at the beginning the director was constantly telling me off for sitting like a boy, with my legs apart, while wearing a cocktail dress and heels!”

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