"When you leave good people afraid to speak on behalf of justice, however awkwardly or insensitively, those unafraid to speak will rise to power."

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Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

C.E. Morgan

#Rise To Power Quotes #People Quotes #Justice Quotes

“I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.”
“When I was younger, I didn't have any aspirations to be an actress.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.”
“There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was neither right nor reasonable, and Desdemona ended up dead. I wouldn't mind Leanne ending up dead. I wouldn't mind exploding her into fireworks of peacock and pearl.”

Source : Franny Billingsley (2011). “Chime”, p.113, Penguin
“I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.”
“Communication is merely an exchange of information, but connection is an exchange of our humanity.”

Source : Sean Stephenson (2009). “Get Off Your "But": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself”, p.34, John Wiley and Sons
“I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.”
“A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.”

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