"The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood... Otherwise none of us could call our souls our own."

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Source : Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

Margaret Chase Smith

#Religious Quotes #Independent Quotes #Exercise Quotes

“Never get caught acting.”
“All Disruption starts with introspection.”
“It's so ridiculous to see a golfer with a one foot putt and everybody is saying "Shhh" and not moving a muscle. Then we allow nineteen year-old kids to face a game-deciding free throw with seventeen thousand people yelling.”
“There is no larger collective-action problem than the environment. The three biggest lies of the environmental movement is that every little bit helps, you can do your part, and together we can do it.”
“Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true.”

Source : "Fictional character: Bodhi". "Point Break", www.imdb.com. 1991.
“Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.”
“I'm not interested in being gratuitously relatable and broadening out what I do in order to reach more people. When I'm going into specific details of the trauma, I think it's the details that connect with people. I'm accidentally relatable - I didn't mean to be, and I didn't think I would be. It feels like what I'm saying on stage is quite shameful and possibly perverted; so for other people to be laughing and go, "Oh, yes, we understand that. We are like that too," is very lovely.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.”

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