"I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too."

-- Alice Walker

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“The people who seem to have a lock on power get swept out in a couple of years. So it's naïve to keep swinging at the same targets over and over. It took me a long time to realize, but most of the shackles that I flailed against were just illusory.”

Source : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com
“Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.”
“I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.”
“No one should brave the underworld alone.”
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
“I go wherever my creativity takes me.”
“And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.”

Source : Robert Jay Lifton (2011). “Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.”

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