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John Legend

"We have a serious problem with incarceration in this country. It's destroying families, it's destroying communities and we're the most incarcerated country in the world, and when you look deeper and look at the reasons we got to this place, we as a society made some choices politically and legislatively, culturally to deal with poverty, deal with mental illness in a certain way and that way usually involves using incarceration."

Source : "John Legend launches campaign to end mass incarceration". Interview with Mesfin Fekadu, www.msnbc.com. April 14, 2015.

John Legend

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“If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me ...”
“The girl who I will marry will have a heart so wise that in the hollow of her eyes my heart will want to tarry. The girl who will be mine will have skin so soft and tender, and when it comes December, her skin will be my wine.”

Source : Eric Blau, Jacques Brel (1971). “Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in Paris”, E.P. Dutton
“I'd rather go naked than wear fur.”
“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change”
“Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.”
“All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly sinking into contempt. In every country in which a strong political life is manifested, the secularisation of politics is the consequence. Each stage of that movement has been initiated and effected by those who are most indifferent to dogmatic theology, and each has been opposed by those who are most occupied with theology.”
“It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured.”

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