"Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors"

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Source : Song: If There's Hell Below

Curtis Mayfield

#Brother Quotes #Political Quotes #Police Quotes

“We must consult our means rather than our wishes.”
“When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.”
“I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only man who views time sequentially and tries to impose a solar calendar upon it. What if other people, both dead and unborn, are living out their lives in the same space we occupy, without our knowledge or consent?" The Glass Rainbow, p. 138”
“I don't write every day, but if I go more than a couple of months without writing, I begin to get a little nervous. I usually have bursts of poems. Five or six come together and then I slack off and want to do something else.”

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“Git an eyeful of cesspool alley the land of opportunity.”
“I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.”
“If you are an American Muslim, you live in a community that is really struggling to get its feet off the ground. We're a very young community, so to speak, institutionally and otherwise. The way in which we're portrayed it's like we're the empire from Star Wars and the truth is that we'd be lucky to be the Rebel Alliance.”

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“In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and almost all of the Boy Scout Oath. Now exactly what picture were you planning to trade for all that?”

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