"We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave."

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Emiliano Zapata

#Justice Quotes #Want Quotes #Slave Quotes

“I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder and I'm amazed we're not running amok in the streets, and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.”

Source : David Wojnarowicz (1990). “David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame”, University Galleries
“Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.”

Source : James Rowland Angell (1937). “American Education: Addresses & Articles”
“The ultimate compliment a customer can make to an organization about one of its marketing people is: "I'm not sure whether your sales rep works for me or for you."”
“The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.”
“So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.”

Source : "A Dialogue With Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December, 10 1990.
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

Source : Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.258, Courier Corporation
“It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.”
“It's no great achievement to go along with the crowd. Be the unusual guy, the extraordinary guy.”

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