"Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited?"

-- Dolores Huerta

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“Make no mistake about it: the labeling of someone's language as 'sexist' involves a political judgment and implies the desirability of a particular sociological doctrine. One may be in favor of that doctrine (as I believe I am) but it is quite another matter to force writers by edicts and censorship into accepting it.”
“Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.”

Source : Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”
“Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence...”

Source : Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”
“If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.”
“People like to play with the tuna, sometimes.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.”

Source : "Melissa Etheridge's anthem of hope". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. October 16, 2005.
“Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant. â€œYouâ€™re my sacred ones,â€ I told the books. â€œNo one but me still cares about you. But Iâ€™m going to keep you with me forever. And one day Iâ€™ll make you important again.â€ I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell.”

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