"There is a big difference to someone being born with vision loss, to a kid having vision loss, to a senior having macular degeneration and losing their sight."

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Source : Source: visionlossresources.org

Marla Runyan

#Senior Quotes #Kids Quotes #Loss Quotes

“The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease their wanton murder and brutality and torture of black people, or face the wrath of the armed people.”

Source : Huey P Newton (2011). “The Huey P. Newton Reader”, p.149, Seven Stories Press
“I saw a few lines from a few, there were hundreds of them, all [Adolf Hitler] letters and [Eva Braun] replies written on carbon paper. I just saw that her letters to him were lengthy, his were much shorter. I wouldn't intrude on their privacy and I had given her my word.”
“The rules of the track work well for life. Roller derby is life in a tiny circle. You can only go forward, even if you find yourself turned around, facing the wrong way. There's speed, unpredictability, and danger. You can't be sure what's going to happen, you don't always know when you'll stop, and it appears most people are out to get you. You will fall. You will get hurt. But you will get up again.”

Source : Pamela Ribon (2010). “Going in Circles”, p.309, Simon and Schuster
“Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.”
“According to the norms of the hijras community, it's not necessary that one be castrated. Castration is your choice. If you do it, testosterone doesn't build up, femininity comes, but I have always said that castration is not the right way. A person should go for complete sexual reassignment surgery, hormone therapy, psychological counseling.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (1996). “The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture”, p.87, Palgrave Macmillan
“I like old people, just as I like old trees: in their shadow there is freshness and peace, one admires them, and around them everything is so calm.”
“But trust me, if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.”

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