"I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived."

-- Stokely Carmichael

#Privilege Quotes #Vote Quotes #Revolutionary Quotes

“I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.”
“I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.”
“The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.”
“Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when he sins on a little temptation. It is devilish to sin without a temptation; it is little less than devilish to sin on a little occasion. The less the temptation is to sin, the greater is that sin.”
“The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.”
“It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.”
“There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.”
“The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.”

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