"It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically."

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Source : Ousmane Sembène (1995). “God's Bits of Wood”, p.20, Heinemann

Ousmane Sembene

#Real Quotes #Taken Quotes #Justice Quotes

“I just want to be me and play golf.”
“If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my forties flipping my husband the bird over potato chips, I'd say you were crazy.”
“A cough is a symptom, not a disease. Take it to your doctor and he can give you something serious to worry about.”
“I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.”
“Know that you are part of a joyful Universe. Allow your romantic, ecstatic, blissful emotions to appear more frequently in your daily life. When you feel joy, experience it and express it! As the New Testament says, 'Joy is the fruit of the Spirit.'”
“There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.”
“For those saying they live in fear, again, I think they should be part of the conversation. They should reach out and try to not be so presumptively accusatory, frankly, or presumptively negative towards the president-elect, and instead try to build that trusting relationship and try to, frankly, explain their case to him and to his advisers.”
“A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.”

Source : 'Aneurin Bevan' (1962) vol. 1, ch. 13

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