"A man must be himself or nothing!"

-- Henry Parkes

“The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.”
“The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.”

Source : Winona LaDuke (2002). “The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings”, p.99, Voyageur Press (MN)
“It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.”
“I think a proud Southerner is a Southerner who is aware of his or her past, and being proud of one's past does not mean you accept it. It means that you realize that we've come through the fire, and we're headed in another direction.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.”

Source : "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.
“But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Had we never lou'd sae kindly, Had we never lou'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - We had ne'er been broken hearted”
“The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.”
“People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.”

Source : "What would a second Obama term look like?" by Paul Gigot, www.foxnews.com. September 08, 2012.

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