"The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.”

Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.
“We stand then for freedom, because we claim the right to develop our own individuality and evolve our own destiny along our own lines, unembarrassed by what Western civilisation has to teach us and unhampered by the institutions which the West has imposed.”

Source : "Deshabandhu Chitta Ranjan: brief survey of life and work, provincial conference speeches, Congress speeches". Book by Chitta Ranjan Das, Rajen Sen, B.K. Sen, "Undelivered presidential address for the session of Indian Congress held at Ahmedabad in December 1921", 1926.
“I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.”
“The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It's not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.”

Source : "Lawrence Krauss, Physicist, Claims Teaching Creationism Is Child Abuse And ‘Like The Taliban’" By Meredith Bennett-Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2013.
“When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behaviour that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.”
“My friend's granddad died of prostate cancer and it had a profound effect on me. So when I was presented with the opportunity to speak out, I had to take it. This is a life threatening issue for men; it happens every day. The more you know, the better your chances are of dealing with it if the worst were to happen.”

Source : "'90210' star Tristan Wilds poses nude in Cosmopolitan UK for cancer awareness" by Cristina Everett, www.nydailynews.com. July 08, 2011.
“There's this privileged position of being an artist where you can do things on a more experimental nature simply to see what happens.”
“Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.”

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