"The artivist (artist +activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression â€“ by any medium necessary. The artivist merges commitment to freedom and justice with the pen, the lens, the brush, the voice, the body, and the imagination. The artivist knows that to make an observation is to have an obligation."

-- M. K. Asante

#Struggle Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.”
“The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.”

Source : "Anticipating the Incapacitated Justice". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2009.
“I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.”
“A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.”
“I always wanted to go into acting.”
“The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.”
“(Raven) "Makes me think of werewolves. Do you think a man can change into an animal?" (Alexander) "If he's with the right girl.”
“If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”

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