"We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other."

“To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.”

“As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“On the last day of our five-day work week, we did two performances and we had an audience. It was similar to theatre; we went from beginning to end, and it was very pleasing.”

Source : "Jean Stapleton: On Theatre". Interview with Robert Faires, www.austinchronicle.com. November 10, 2000.

“I remember her eyes. The eyes of Gutete Emerita.”

Source : Alfredo Jaar, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona, Spain), Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea (San Sebastián, Spain) (1998). “Let there be light: the Rwanda Project 1994-1998”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

“Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.”

“I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.”

Source : "Bartender Wisdom: Anthony Mackie Edition" by Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. June 21, 2012.

“Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.”

Source : Walter Brueggemann (2010). “Journey to the Common Good”, p.35, Westminster John Knox Press

“If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.”