"Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."

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Source : Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Sept. 1918

Eugene V. Debs

#Years Quotes #Class Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Its better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.”
“If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself; then art thou lost eternally.”
“I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.”
“Dream big, talk big, and turn your faith loose!”
“There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us.”
“I think that the security in the cities is a lot better, but I think that outside the cities the peasants have no security, have no protection of the justice, so that I think is something we have to address.”

Source : "Big Think Interview With Ingrid Betancourt". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 19, 2010.
“You don't look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but it's very important diversity.”

Source : "One seed at a time, protecting the future of food". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2009.
“I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they're women, they're in positions because they're intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally.”

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