"For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry along and are carried along by people, who are not merely passengers of history, but pilots as well."

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Source : Doug McAdam (1988). “Freedom Summer”, Oxford University Press, USA

Doug McAdam

#Roots Quotes #People Quotes #Historical Quotes

“One thing about hanging out with a bunch of clean drug addicts, everyone is just super similar to you. So that has been awesome. I've made a lot of friends who are coming from an extremely similar place, even if they seem externally very different. I know I am an outsider in a number of ways, but I don't feel weird.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we had been made for Him.”
“Jealousy does not wait for reasons.”
“Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one's own, of other people's. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and through it and past it. Or else be destroyed by it.”

Source : Mary Balogh (2006). “Simply Love”, p.140, Delacorte Press
“Wrong is for other people.”
“My dead and wounded were nearly as great in number as those still on duty. They literally covered the ground. The blood stood in puddles in some places on the rocks; the ground was soaked with the blood of as brave men as ever fell on the red field of battle.”

Source : Frank Haskell, Franklin Aretas Haskell, William C. Oates (1992). “Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts”, Bantam Books
“Every time you have a glass of cow milk, some calf is not.”
“Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.”

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