"Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues."

-- Thomas Menino

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“Here's a six-foot-ten guy in sneakers and the lady's asking me, 'Profession?'”
“I have been singing for as long as I could talk.”
“Successful organizing is not built on self-interest but rather on dignity and a sense of purpose.”
“A beginning is the end of something, always.”
“Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.”
“The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth... In a world struggling in violence and dishonesty, the further development of non-violence - not only as a philosophy but as a way of life, as a force on the streets, in the market squares, outside the missile bases, inside the chemical plants and inside the war industry - becomes one of the most urgent priorities.”
“...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.”
“For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.”

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