"Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners."

-- Howard Zinn

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“We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.”
“Even today we don't pay serious attention to the issue of poverty, because the powerful remain relatively untouched by it. Most people distance themselves from the issue by saying that if the poor worked harder, they wouldn't be poor.”
“Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.”

Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.54, New York Review of Books
“Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.”

Source : "Q&A: Mike Birbiglia on the Subway, Fans & Comedy About Love". Interview with Anna Peele, www.esquire.com. November 26, 2013.
“Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.”
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”

Source : Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937
“What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.”
“O, let us understand that the power of Christianity lies not in a hazy indefiniteness, not in shadowy forms, not so much even in definite truths and doctrines, but in the truth and the doctrine. There is but one Christ crucified. All the gathered might of the infinite God is in that word.”

Source : Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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