".. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens."

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Source : Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity”, p.249, Random House

Katherine Boo

#Country Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“I have someone that cooks for me... that's the best thing ever. I just want to show up and I want my house to be like a hotel... so I want to have a couple of options... I like to have a couple of options.”
“Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.”
“When you step into that boat you have made a silent commitment to your team that you will do everything in your power to help them win.”
“On the set I never know what day of the week it is.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.”
“There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with here in the States of the Diaspora Jew, i.e. Jews in America or Europe or Russia, etc. does not fit at all with the reality of the homegrown "sabras" of Israel.”
“For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies.”
“I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.”

Source : Jack Tatum, Bill Kushner (1980). “They Call Me Assassin”, Avon Books

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