"The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets."

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Hoyt W. Fuller

#Black Quotes #Letters Quotes #Civil Rights Quotes

“I'm becoming too honest for my own good these days.”
“Everything beeps now.”
“In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.”
“Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.”

Source : Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.15, Canongate Books
“Government has a monopoly on the legal use of force and violence.”
“Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.”
“Fairness is an efficiency parameter if we look at the whole global civilization. It is not an efficient way of meeting human needs if one billion people starve while another billion have excess. It would be more efficient to distribute resources so that at least vital needs were met everywhere. Otherwise, for example, if kids are starving somewhere, dad goes out to slash and burn the rain forest to feed them - and so would I if my kids were dying. And this kind of destruction is everyone's problem, because we live in the same ecosphere.”
“The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.”

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