"Unite all people of African ancestry of the world to one great body to establish a country and absolute government of their own."

-- Marcus Garvey

#Country Quotes #Government Quotes #People Quotes

“It isn't a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state's goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government's propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They'll fasten the chains to their own ankles. H.L. Mencken once said that the state doesn't just want to make you obey. It tries to make you want to obey. And that's one thing the government schools do very well.”
“As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.”
“It's always better to feed your enemies than to fight with them.”
“I believe that we are at the point now, in the United States, where a movement is beginning to emerge.”
“This is what we see when we look up at Rainier, the beauty, the horror, the awe the unbelievability of size that confirms our own consequence on this earth. We look at the mountain, like god and can imagine nothing larger. Its incompressible life-span reminds us of the fleeting mortality of our own bones. It looms over our lives on clear days and and stay present but hidden through the clouds of winter. Like god it remains everywhere forever.”
“I don't need a psychiatrist. I'm Catholic.”
“What makes 'good tape'? That is the question that has consumed my life for the past 20 years, and I have an answer for you”
“Shame is the shadow of love.”

Source : Song: Shame, Album: Uh Huh Her, 2004

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