"Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor."

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Source : "Henry Rollins' Letter to a Young American (Pt. 2)". bigthink.com.

Henry Rollins

#Ignorance Quotes #Feet Quotes #Racism Quotes

“There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.”
“You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.”
“Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are civilians, women and children. How can arms manufacturers, weapons designers, plant managers, politicians, who have families of their own whom they love, be so insensitive when it comes to the suffering of other human beings?”

Source : Jose Ramos-Horta's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1996.
“People tend to remember my performances, not me.”
“The early Christians' opponents all accepted that Jesus existed, taught, had disciples, worked miracles, and was put to death on a Roman cross. As in our day, debate and disagreement centred largely not on the story but on the significance of Jesus. Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the gospels contain plenty of valuable evidence which has to be weighed and assessed critically.”

Source : Graham Stanton (2002). “The Gospels and Jesus”, p.145, Oxford University Press
“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.”

Source : Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company
“American public policy is run on a myth.”

Source : "Lamm on the Line". Interview with Peter Doskoch, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1996.
“We have now under President Obama's leadership had 29 months in a row of private sector job growth. That stretch of positive private sector job growth hasn't happened since 2005. We still have a long way to go, but we are moving in the right direction.”

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