"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices."

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Source : "See It Now" (CBS), March 7, 1954.

Edward R. Murrow

#Freedom Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Literature Quotes

“October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smoke, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling. We are in the midst of cool crisp days, purple mists, and Nature recklessly tossing her whole palette of dazzling tones through fields and woodlands.”
“We bring about a world in consciousness that is partly what is given, and partly what we bring, something that comes into being through this particular conjunction and no other. And the key to this is the kind of attention we pay to the world.”
“I think itâ€™s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.”
“It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.”
“I've always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you've got to have a tour to support that.”
“How sweet to move at summer's eve By Clyde's meandering stream, When Sol in joy is seen to leave The earth with crimson beam; When islands that wandered far Above his sea couch lie, And here and there some gem-like star Re-opes its sparkling eye.”
“They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.”
“Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye â€¦ I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.”

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