"People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be scrupulous about the means they will use. They will use such means as come to hand. Neither, in the main, will they distinguish one oppressor from another, nor see through to the root principle of their oppression."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Mean Quotes #Roots Quotes #Hands Quotes

“When thou art quiet and silent, then art thou as God was before nature and creature; thou art that which God then wats; thou art that whereof he made thy nature and creature: Then thou hearest and seest even with that wherewith God himself saw and heard in thee, before every thine own willing or thine own seeing began.”
“Anybody who is a professional athlete who has a social media account on any of the networks, when they sign up for that account, they subject themselves to all of the criticisms and all of the praises that may or may not be out there. So you can't get on social media and complain about the people because that's what you know you're dealing with. You have to hear it. You don't have to respond. Me personally, I don't respond to the negativity. It's gonna be there. I read it. It keeps me grounded.”

Source : KSK Interview, uproxx.com. October 29, 2012.
“Everything costs something everyone pays”
“The rule, I think, is: Do your homework, learn what there is to learn about the real world, and then when you get in the room, forget it all.”

Source : "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.
“Love is worth living. Why do you trade life for less?”
“Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke”
“God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.”

Source : Roger Williams (1867). “The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution”, p.3
“I know how men in exile feed on dreams.”

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