"To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution."

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Source : "Ecuador or Another Country Should Grant Asylum to Snowden, CEPR Co-Director Says". cepr.net. June 23, 2013.

Mark Weisbrot

#Political Quotes #Form Quotes #Persecution Quotes

“A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.”
“What in the world would we do without our libraries?”
“Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.”
“That's part of this industry. It's hard a lot of the time, especially when you get knocked down a lot. There's a lot of criticism and it's always in the back of your mind that you may never work again.”
“The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.”
“As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters....What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow.”
“It would be easier if I didn't even make the playoffs, it would hurt less. But then I start thinking about how much fun it is.”
“Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.”

Source : A.J. Cronin (1941). “The Keys of the Kingdom”

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