"Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual."

-- Nelson Mandela

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“Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession, and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rock like a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack it and you might get either your first glimpse of a saint or a pile of rubble.”

Source : Lucia Perillo (2012). “Inseminating the Elephant”, p.37, Copper Canyon Press
“The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life in India.”

Source : "Dying of hunger in a land of surplus" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2002.
“Can injustice one way be corrected without the interim reaction that tries to impose injustice the other way?”
“I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting. There's already so many quick opinions and angles being thrown in your face, so I avoided writing about things like that and tried focusing on the smaller, more seemingly insignificant things. The things you would find in the back of the newspaper or the back of your mind.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Abundance is a state, not a quantity. Idea of shortage is man-made.”
“Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his presence beside me-only his absence."”
“Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.”
“It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.”

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