"My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty."

-- Ellen Wilkinson

#Mother Quotes #Sick Quotes #Extravagance Quotes

“Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed.”
“We are weak little Davids. But we are stronger than the Goliath of atheism, because God is on our side. The truth belongs to us.”
“I did a play called Throne of Straw when I was 11, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. It became really clear to me at that point that I enjoyed acting more than any other experience I was having.”
“A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.”
“Gotta watch out for directors.”
“And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to these would be to open his heart to his loneliness and longing and that was beyond bearing.”

Source : Martine Leavitt (2016). “Keturah and Lord Death”, p.43, Highlights Press
“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.”

Source : "The Principles of Anarchism". A Lecture by Lucy E. Parsons, lucyparsons.org.
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