"Instead of wondering WHY this is happening to you, consider why this is happening to YOU."

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“No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent ... Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child.”
“The past cannot be cured.”
“With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives, but also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.”
“Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.”
“The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.”

Source : Life Magazine, Volume 7, Issues 1-6 (p. 24), 1984.
“Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.”
“Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.”

Source : "Al Green: What I've Learned" by Larry Getlen, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
“From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came to the point that the Indians were him. You had to educate yourself because the movies were not educating you. The movies were giving you a reflection of you that was not the truth. That's the trick. The movie was also giving a reflection of what the country is. Basically, a country that wanted itself to be innocent. That's the ambivalence of Hollywood.”

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