"Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth."

-- Dick Gregory

#Respect Quotes #Confused Quotes #Rights Quotes

“It is so easy to close down to risk, to protect ourselves against change and growth. But no baby bird emerges without first destroying the perfect egg sheltering it. We must risk being raw and fresh and awkward. For without such openness, life will not penetrate us anew. Unless we are open, we will not be filled.”

Source : Patricia Monaghan (1999). “The Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit”, p.109, Llewellyn Worldwide
“Death to life is crown or shame.”
“We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa, but had them across India, across Southeast Asia, and across China. Because of Borlaug's work at Simit and because of this we have huge excess, until very recently, in agricultural produce and the prices went through the floor.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum”

Source : Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.79, Hamilton Books
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”
“Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.”
“It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.”
“I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I mean, that's one of the things that interests me about memoir. It should be as much about how we remember, and that includes false memories, and the realization that one is having a false memory. That's the kind of an interesting way of layering the whole experience of recollection.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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