"Christianity is being concerned about [others], not building a million-dollar church while people are starving right around the corner. Christ was a revolutionary person, out there where it was happening. That's what God is all about, and that's where I get my strength."

-- Fannie Lou Hamer

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“Not to like ice cream is to show oneself uninterested in food.”
“The directors did an amazing job and Josh Holloway is just he's just shining. I think that, of the people I started working with, he's one of the people I'm most impressed with. How he's grown and learned and he's been just stunning everyone with his performances.”
“For what is glory but the blaze of fame?”
“American working men are principals in the three-member team of capital, management, labor. Never have they regarded themselves as a servile class that could attain freedom only through destruction of the industrial economy.”
“I don't know if anything can really prepare you for 'Survivor,' but since I grew up as an athlete, the physical aspect came to me more easily.”
“Little by little a planetary prayer book is thus being composed by an increasingly united humanity seeking its oneness. Once again, but this time on a universal scale, humankind is seeking no less than its reunion with 'divine,' its transcendence into higher forms of life.”
“I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women.”

Source : 'Woman of the Year' Acceptance Speech, Billboard Women in Music event, New York, www.billboard.com. November 30, 2012.
“Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.”

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