"Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the adoption of the first human rights laws and to the creation of the first human rights non-governmenta l organization. And yet despite the efforts of the international community to combat this abhorrent practice, it is still widely prevalent in all its insidious forms, old and new."

-- Kofi Annan

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“Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.”
“Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it.”
“it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.”
“A lot of the pieces I've done over the years have involved alterations of scale and the idea of the viewer's relationship to the object and how we see things by either enlarging or reducing objects, it causes the viewer to look at them again. It's hard to do because our culture is so bombarded by images and media. How do you make something fresh for a viewer? That's a real challenge.”
“We should be holy people eager to greet our Lord when He returns, ready at any moment for the trumpet's call, people of optimism, busy in evangelism, hands to the plow, eyes on the prize.”
“Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.”

Source : Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1962). “Selected poems”
“Xena, above all, remember your destiny. Remember it and fight, fight to come back. This world needs you. I need you.”
“Progressives are the majority; we won the popular vote by a long shot and Donald Trump and the congressional Republicans representing mainly rich old white men are a minority. If we stand up together and use the effective strategies and tactics the tea party used, we believe we can stop them.”

Source : Source: m.motherjones.com

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