"When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you."

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Fannie Lou Hamer

“Vengeance burns,Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you.”
“The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.”
“In fact it was always the Communist problem which was responsible for the opposition to [Albert] Camus. It was always and overall a political thing, a kind of misunderstanding.”

Source : Source: www.spikemagazine.com
“We are the breakers of our own hearts”

Source : Eudora Welty (1996). “One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression : a Snapshot Album”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.”
“There is no question that under the Equal Rights Amendment there will be debates at times, indecision at times, litigation at times. Has anyone proposed that we rescind the First Amendment on free speech because there is too much litigation over it? Has anyone suggested the same for the Fourteenth Amendment I don't suppose there has ever been a constitutional amendment with so much litigation?”
“I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.”
“Gold is not overvalued at $500, and gold will not be overvalued at $1,500 or $2,000. The real money is buying gold and putting it away.”

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