"My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we must react with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from adversity."

-- Wilma Mankiller

#Character Quotes #Adversity Quotes #People Quotes

“People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while theyâ€™re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.”
“Historically, international law lent a measure of legality to the colonial system, and allowed the West to set the rules for participation as a sovereign state on a global level. It also protected the interests of foreign investment in countries of the global South even when these were exploitative, and deprived countries of the benefits of resources situated within their territories.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.”

Source : Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub
“I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.”
“My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.”
“This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.”
“Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.”
“Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them.”

Source : Francis Lieber (1853). “On Civil Liberty and Self-government”, p.366

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