"I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could."

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“Without action, the best intentions in the world are nothing more than that: intentions.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 13, 2015
“Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia.”
“However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.”
“If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.”

Source : Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2007.
“It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.”
“Informing all of Carson's work was the idea that although human beings are part of nature, we are distinguished by our power to alter it irreversibly.”
“We, the Greens, should thank our former foreign minister Joschka Fischer for bringing something hideous and shameful to light - that Nazi ideas were fully adopted by white-collar workers in the Foreign Ministry. Joschka Fischer stood up to criticism that he would foul his own nest, and with his order to start the historical commission he made it clear that the ministry's pride in itself, as a haven of resistance to Hitler, was no longer acceptable.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I think that one of the hardest things in the world to be is a black male. I mean everyone hates your guts. White men are afraid of you. White women are afraid of you. The cops hate you. The government wants you dead. Your own people want to shoot you for what you got. You just can't get over it. And even if you are able to get over it you're forced to do it on the white guy's terms.”

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