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“My whole thing was, just being me. Now, you look around the NBA and all of them have tattoos, guys wearing cornrows. Now you see the police officers with the cornrows. I took a beating for those types of things.”
Source : "No more practice for A.I.: Allen Iverson says goodbye to Philadelphia" by Bryan Armen Graham, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.
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“Any time I get to blow bubbles pretty much lights me up.”
Source : "David Helvarg, Marine Activist, Answers Questions". Grist Interview, grist.org. January 04, 2005.
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“If I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.”
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“Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.”
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“Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It should be good for the wealth of the nation, and that is when it acts as little as possible upon the labor that produces it and when it consumes as little as possible. It should be good for the public security, and that is when it protects as much as possible, provided that the protection does not cost more than it brings in.... It is in losing their powers of action that governments improve. Each time that the governed gain space there is progress.”
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“Every decent director has only one subject, and finally only makes the same film over and over again. My subject is the exploitability of feelings, whoever might be the one exploiting them. It never ends. It's a permanent theme. Whether the state exploits patriotism, or whether in a couple relationship, one partner destroys the other.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target”
Source : Richard Wright (2009). “Uncle Tom's Children”, p.30, Harper Collins
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“Isn't it about time you fought back?”
Source : Penelope Douglas (2014). “Bully”, p.34, Penguin