"Two months ago I had a nice apartment in Chicago. I had a good job. I had a son. When something happened to the Negroes in the South I said, `That's their business, not mine.' Now I know how wrong. I was. The murder of my son has shown me that what happens to any of us, anywhere in the world, had better be the business of us all."

-- Mamie Till

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“We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along.”
“If she doesn't really love you, then it's over. And if she does love you, then love will win out.”
“I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.”

Source : Source: magazine.100percentrock.com
“My songs emerge unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own...We have, all of us, over the years, written things that responded to the world as it slapped us in the face. Me and Nash, singing "To the Last Whale" and "Find the Cost of Freedom". Stills coming up with "For What It's Worth". These came right out of the news. People have accused us of taking stances and the truth is we don't.”
“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”

Source : Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.43, Routledge
“Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.”
“I'll fight a man with three children and a nice house any day over a man that's living out of a car.”
“I wanted to show how lightness was possible in the 1960s, but how life is more difficult in the 2000s.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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