"A pear tree is blooming, by a collapsed house, on an old battlefield."

-- Masaoka Shiki

#Tree Quotes #House Quotes #Blooming Quotes

“I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the fact that we cannot educate for critical consciousness if we have a group of people who cannot access Fanon, Cabral, or Audre Lorde because they canâ€™t read or write. How did Malcolm X radicalize his consciousness? He did it through books. If you deprive working-class and poor black people of access to reading and writing, you are making them that much farther removed from being a class that can engage in revolutionary resistance.”
“You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.”
“Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.”
“large part of our purpose in life is to be of service to the rest of us.”
“The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.”
“I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.”
“Keep salaries low and equity high. Keep the organization as flat as you can.”
“When it comes to my rights as an American citizen, and yours, I am a triumphalist and an absolutist. Anything less is an insult,”

Source : James Meredith (2012). “A Mission from God: A Memoir and Challenge for America”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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