"There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it."

-- Learned Hand

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“There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.”
“The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential”
“Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs.”
“What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don't I ever learn? Why don't I ever do anything different?”
“If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.”
“I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.”

Source : "SUNDANCE FUTURES | “Pariah” Actress Adepero Oduye". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. January 24, 2011.
“You can only go to places that you will let yourself go.”

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