"The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes."

-- Victoria Woodhull

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“The story of slavery is everybody's story. It is the story about how we're all shaped by, regardless of race, regardless of how long we've been in this country. We hope that we can be a factor to both educate America around this subject but maybe more importantly help Americans finally wrestle with this, talk about it, debate it, because only through that conversation can we ever find the reconciliation healing that I think we all want.”
“Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.”

Source : Petra Karin Kelly (1984). “Fighting for Hope”, p.31, South End Press
“By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.”
“Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.”
“The valid point or a valuable contribution of a deserving person has not been truly appreciated if he is respected equally with those people who only desire but donâ€™t actually deserve to be applauded.”
“...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.”
“Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.”
“You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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