"With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation."

-- Paulo Freire

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“The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs.”
“No wife, no horse, no mustache”
“I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.”
“Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.”

Source : Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.133, Spiegel & Grau
“Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes.”

Source : David Cottrell (2009). “Monday Morning Mentoring: Ten Lessons to Guide You Up the Ladder”, p.11, Harper Collins
“I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.”
“I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.”

Source : Frank O'Hara (1977). “Early writing”, Bookpeople
“Populism is at its essence [...] just determined focus on helping people be able to get out of the iron grip of the corporate power that is overwhelming our economy, our environment, energy, the media, government. [...] One big difference between real populism and what the Tea Party thing is, is that real populists understand that government has become a subsidiary of corporations. So you can't say, let's get rid of government. You need to be saying let's take over government.”

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