"In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East."

-- Paul Robeson

#Land Quotes #Class Quotes #Hysteria Quotes

“Dying visions of angels and Christ and God and heaven are confined to credibly good men. Why do not bad men have such visions? They die of all sorts of diseases; they have nervous temperaments; they even have creeds and hopes about the future which they cling to with very great tenacity; why do not they rejoice in some such glorious illusions when they go out of the world?”

Source : Enoch Fitch Burr (1871). “Ad Fidem; Or, Parish Evidences of the Bible”, p.305
“Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.”
“I believe young female directors in particular should always remind themselves of the truths of their own stories and not let outsiders influence the authenticity of their films.”
“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers,”

Source : Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press
“Losers have tons of variety. Champions just take pride in learning to hit the same old boring winning shots.”
“Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, itâ€™s an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.”
“There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature.”
“Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.”

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