"If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one."

--

Source : The Worker, 13 July 1975

Fannie Lou Hamer

“Rock bottom; that's a fishing term.”
“The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.”
“The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans”
“The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different”
“... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.”
“I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure of kneading the dough.”

Source : Bernardino Ramazzini (1964). “Diseases of Workers”
“Always question the authority.”
“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.”

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