"I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement."

-- Angela Davis

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Historical Quotes

“There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.”

Source : Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.367, Oxford University Press, USA
“Silence is a text easy to misread.”

Source : A. A. Attanasio (1997). “The Eagle and the Sword”, Harper Prism
“I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.”
“Sixty years after the end of the war, the time has come to make this information available. With the number of survivors and witnesses diminishing by the day, and the reality that the Holocaust is fading into the pages of history and memory, we should not have to wait any longer.”
“I should have more vanity.”

Source : "Amy Brenneman: Private Practice Season Finale Is Like a 'Quentin Tarantino Movie'". Interview with Matt Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. April 30, 2009.
“Intelligent media companies strive to provide both intellectual and comedy programs, groundbreaking and reflective articles, art house and popular movies. Not to be open minded in providing a full range of quality media would be a failure to serve the breadth and depth of the communities we live in.”
“The lowlights... Sometimes you're away from home quite a lot, which can be difficult. It's not first class all the way, you don't stay in exotic hotels and have people running after you.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The media we surround ourselves with allows us to manufacture our own experience every day, which is a perception of the world that is our own invention entirely, whether it is on social media or what we choose to absorb. This was very different when I was a kid, like generations before us we were exposed to things that were not entirely on our terms. We had to wrestle with and find the relationship with the world around you. It was literal experience, unlike the form of protracted psychic masturbation that is the digital world we live in.”

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