"All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said. Verbatim. They could remember the way he put it, and he put it so well."

-- John Henrik Clarke

#Two Quotes #Class Quotes #People Quotes

“The thrill of coming home has never changed.”
“It's important for me to try my hand at philanthropy because I want to leave behind a record of someone who did more than just gobble up stuff for themselves. I realized that a life lived for yourself is not much of a life,”

Source : Ben Affleck speech at People's Choice Awards, www.eonline.com. January, 2015.
“I study nature so as not to do foolish things.”
“A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.”
“Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.”
“Money is not a part of the visible sector of the economy; people do not consume money. Money is not a physical factor of production, but rather a yardstick for measuring economic input, economic outtake and the relative values of the real goods and services of the economic world. Money provides a method of measuring obligations, rights, powers and privileges. It provides a means whereby certain individuals can accumulate claims against others, or against the economy as a whole, or against many economies.”
“Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.”
“Let not the titles of consanguinity betray you into a prejudicial trust; no blood being apter to raise a fever, or cause a consumption sooner in your poor estate, than that which is nearest your own.”

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