"How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?"

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Source : John Carlos, Dave Zirin (2011). “The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment that Changed the World”, p.1, Haymarket Books

John Carlos

#World Quotes #Injustice Quotes

“Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.”
“If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.”
“It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.”
“Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from as many impulses.”

Source : Thaddeus Norris (1864). “The American Angler's Book: Embracing the Natural History of Sporting Fish, and the Art of Taking Them. With Instructions in Fly-fishing, Fly-making, and Rod-making; and Directions for Fish-breeding. To which is Appended, Dies Piscatoriæ: Describing Noted Fishing-places, and the Pleasure of Solitary Fly-fishing”, p.29
“My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk”
“Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.”
“Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.”
“I wouldnt mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours.”

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