"I think the political class, just overall, has underestimated the suffering in America."

-- Nina Turner

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“And the leaves were telling secrets to the wind.”
“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to have been overshadowed by the upheavals in the region. Â I have followed events there for almost 40 years. I am convinced that what is needed for a solution is not only the willingness to negotiate in good faith but also to take into account the needs and sensibility of the negotiating partner. I, for one, just cannot believe that the value of settlements for Israel is bigger than the damage these settlements do as an obstacle to peace.”
“The price the Virgin demanded was purity, and the way the educators of Catholic children have interpreted this for nearly two thousand years is sexual chastity. Impurity, we were taught, follows from many sins, but all are secondary to the principal impulse of the devil in the soul--lust.”
“Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign â€” a kind of death-rattle â€” when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.”

Source : John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.169, Macmillan
“Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.”

Source : CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 9, 2008.
“I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person. Much to the chagrin of a lot of African-American people that I meet, because it's almost like there's a betrayal, an intrinsic betrayal: "Don't do that, brotha, we need you. We need you here, in this fold."”

Source : "Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele". Interview With Jesse Thorn, tvclub.kinja.com. March 20, 2012.
“You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?”
“You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor.”

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