"Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security."

-- Norman Thomas

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“I always tell myself that when you're playing a character, pretend they're on trial and you're giving the best witness of their life. You really need to think about every element of the character and represent them properly, as if they were a real person. You want to give 100 percent of what they're worth and what they deserve as people.”
“The Pentagon tested an anti-missile system in New Mexico Wednesday. The test was an incomplete success. While the interceptor was shooting down the incoming missile, three thousand illegal aliens walked right across the border under its nose.”
“And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins of our early freedom? We say this, that the sin our fathers sinned was that they did not trust liberty wholly. They thought it possible to compromise between liberty and government, believing the latter to be 'a necessary evil,' and the moment the compromise was made, the whole misbegotten monster of our present tyranny began to grow. Instruments which are set up to safeguard rights become the very whip with which the free are struck.”

Source : Voltairine de Cleyre (2012). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.99, SUNY Press
“A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.”
“What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place.”

Source : Daniel Kemmis (1992). “Community and the Politics of Place”, p.117, University of Oklahoma Press
“I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War.”
“I donâ€™t know any redneck thatâ€™s not into fun. Thatâ€™s their middle name: Red-Fun-Neck.”
“Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people, that protect our privacy and that of others. Boundaries allow for intimate connection without dissolving or losing one's sense of self.”

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