"You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it."

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Source : Myles Horton (2003). “The Myles Horton Reader: Education for Social Change”, p.122, Univ. of Tennessee Press

Myles Horton

#People Quotes #Want Quotes #Revolutionary Quotes

“Hedge funds are investment pools that are relatively unconstrained in what they do. They are relatively unregulated (for now), charge very high fees, will not necessarily give you your money back when you want it, and will generally not tell you what they do. They are supposed to make money all the time, and when they fail at this, their investors redeem and go to someone else who has recently been making money. Every three or four years they deliver a one-in-a-hundred year flood. They are generally run for rich people in Geneva, Switzerland, by rich people in Greenwich, Connecticut.”
“The more I do, the more frightened I get. But that is essential. Otherwise why would I go on doing it?”
“My voice, at first rough and breaking on the high notes, warms up into something splendid. A voice that would make the mockingjays fall silent and then tumble over themselves to join in.”
“How do you find a way to say what an extraordinary experience it is to be alive in this world? That is the kind of subject matter I try to work with.”
“For me, fiction belongs to my inner being, is something essential which defines me - I am a fiction writer in the same way I am a woman, the same way I am dark-haired - it is something essential and structural. It's like an exogenous skeleton that keeps me going. And I don't know how I would manage to live without writing, working with words.”
“No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.”
“You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.”
“Godâ€™s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.”

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