"It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Choices Quotes #World Quotes #Today Quotes

“Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.”
“I draw inspiration from my travels, so I am always keeping my eye out for what is new in each corner of the country.”

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“When I die, I want to see Malcom X, Lumumba, my father, and I want to be able to look them in the eye”
“To think the needle is going to protect you is as silly as thinking that drugs will make you healthy.”
“What can government do? They can listen to their own people. But I'll tell you what citizens can do, when we elect one of these people - whether we think it's a good guy or a bozo - you got to stay on the case. You don't vote and go home and give them the keys to the car, he'll drive you right off a cliff. You have to help people to stay honest.”
“In the existence of our lives, there are many coincidences that bring people together, but there's only one person that will own your heart forever.”
“The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.”

Source : John Hume's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1998.
“The mystique and the false glamour of the writing profession grow partly out of a mistaken belief that people who can express profound ideas and emotions have ideas and emotions more profound than the rest of us. It isn't so. The ability to express is a special gift with a special craft to support it and is spread fairly equally among the profound, the shallow, and the mediocre.”

Source : Janet Burroway (1982). “Writing fiction: a guide to narrative craft”, Little Brown and Company

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