"Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality."

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Source : "The Need of Atheism". Book by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1980.

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

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“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

Source : June Jordan, “Poem For South African Women”
“The truth is... you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you donÂ´t love me back...it hurts.”
“If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm particularly committed to the political people who needed defense. I understand that they're fighting a bigger war than just, "Let me go get some money for cocaine tonight."”
“You shouldn't presume that all quotes that are in a magazine or a newspaper are accurate.”
“Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.”

Source : Donna VanLiere (2012). “The Good Dream”, p.125, Macmillan
“I'm a federalist. I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.”
“What kind of wonderful God is this who reaches down into the lives of people, picks them up, grants them faith, and changes them!”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 29, 2015

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