"More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote."

-- Michelle Alexander

#Space Quotes #People Quotes #Racism Quotes

“I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.”

Source : Twitter post from May 24, 2013
“I've worked hard to feel beautiful in my natural skin. Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.”
“I disagree very strongly with people saying "that battle is over." If you've started a battle, I don't think it ever ends. The illusion that it's ended can reverse any good results that have come from it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“â—¦"At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is”
“The education we all receive from the State, at school and after, has so warped our minds that the very notion of freedom ends up by being lost, and disguised in servitude. It is a sad sight to see those who believe themselves to be revolutionaries unleashing their hatred on the anarchist just because his views on freedom go beyond their petty and narrow concepts of freedom learned in the State school.”

Source : "The State: Its Historic Role". Book by Peter Kropotkin, www.panarchy.org. 1897.
“There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore.”

Source : "Musicdotes". Book by Scott Beach, p. 94, 1977.
“I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.”
“There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!”

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