"When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me."

-- Alice Walker

#Light Quotes #Self Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“Being a progressive himself, Franklin Roosevelt was talking about the fact that we should provide jobs for everyone who wants one. People do have a right to live in decent housing. They do have a right to education. FDR was preaching this gospel in the '30s, and Dr. Martin Luther King did the same thing in the 1960s with the Poor People's March on Washington. Folks in this country have these rights and it's the job of this country to answer this call.”
“When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.”
“Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.”
“We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.”

Source : "Prince's plea over climate change". news.bbc.co.uk. October 27, 2005.
“it is not the lefty ass-kissers you have to agitate, but the objective left-wing...”

Source : "A Terrorist Call for 'Building a Red Army'". germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org. June 5, 1970.
“There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart”
“Stop caring what other people think. How? Understand that this is your life, not theirs, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself if things don't work out the way you'd hoped...their opinion shouldn't matter more than your own.”
“The hurt affects your ability to go forward.”

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