"After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because I believe that it succeeded in many of its horrifying goals, given the deaths of Martin King, Malcolm X, and other sixties leaders. Since the FBI uses taxpayer dollars to fund its extreme and ridiculous investigations of anyone who expresses dissenting opinions, even resorting to crime - including theft, encouragement to murder, subornation of perjury, and manipulation of the judicial process - to achieve its ends, I have always advocated its disbanding."

-- William Kunstler

#Encouragement Quotes #Kings Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.”
“I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.”

Source : "Jigsaw Offscreen: 'Saw' Star Spends Weekends Coaching Little League". MTV Interview, www.mtv.com. October 24, 2006.
“There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.”
“Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.”
“I used to have more meltdowns backstage than I do [now].... It's not that it was ever cool, but right now, it just seems very uncool to have a meltdown. I'm not saying I'll never have one! But I've learnt to stop it just before it happens.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.”

Source : "National Book Festival: 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' Novelist Alexander McCall Smith". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 19, 2008.
“During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.”
“That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality - your soul, if you will - is as bright and shining as any that has ever been. Bright as Shakespeareâ€™s, bright as Gandhiâ€™s, bright as Mother Theresaâ€™s. Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”

Source : "George Saunders’s Advice to Graduates". Commencement Speech, 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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