"To no human charter am I indebted for my rights."

-- Gerrit Smith

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“The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.”
“I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.”

Source : Sir Robert Peel (1853). “The speeches of the late Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, bart: delivered in the House of Commons”, p.601
“I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers”
“You've got to capture an audience. You don't go out there and just sing, or just play. If you can't capture an audience, you might as well not be out there.”
“The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)”
“Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.”
“Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story”
“At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.”

Source : William Moses Kunstler (2004). “The Emerging Police State: Resisting Illegitimate Authority”, Ocean Press (AU)

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