"Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment."

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Source : "The Beautiful Discomfort of John Ridley’s American Crime" by Wade Davis II, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2015.

Pearl Cleage

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“A judge said that all his experience, both as counsel and judge, had been spent sorting out the difficulties of people who, upon the recommendation of people they did not know, signed documents which they did not read, to buy goods they did not need, with money they had not got.”
“By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers”

Source : "It's Time We Called the Declaration of Independence's Bluff" by Charles P.Pierce, www.esquire.com. July 4, 2016.
“...it is only death which is hopeless.”
“Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.”

Source : Jeremiah Seed (1763). “Discourses on several important subjects: To which is added, Eight sermons preached at the Lady Moyer's lecture, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London”, p.130
“I think in that context, when a generation of kids is that ignorant of their recent history, it does a good job of showing what the Pistols were standing for. It's current and it's in the air, partly because I think nothing contemporary is as extreme or as strongly stated as what The Sex Pistols were able to do in their time, in the '70s. I think the reason to [make the film] is that their ideas are still alive: the defense of the right to be an individual, and questioning everything you read, and questioning all the information that's bombarded increasingly at you.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Every player should take 5 minutes to themselves before practice and mentally lock into what needs to be done.”
“You are supposed to look at the unimproved and think about the way that we dismiss so-called 'chavs' and certain immigrant classes that are considered unworthy, the "undeserving poor". Those kind of prejudices are getting worse.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Perhaps it is better to have a place to go to that you hate than to have no place at all.”

Source : Alistair MacLeod (2010). “Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod”, p.36, Emblem Editions

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