"Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after"

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Source : Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige, Danny Glover (2012). “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century”, p.97, Univ of California Press

Grace Lee Boggs

#Love Is Quotes #Yesterday Quotes #Today Quotes

“A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.”
“Nothing's boring if it's in your soul.”

Source : David Drake (2010). “The Complete Hammer's Slammers: Volume 3”, p.264, Baen Publishing Enterprises
“Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.”
“..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.”
“... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.”
“However, for the man who studies to gain insight, books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he climbs to the summit of knowledge. As soon as a rung has raised him up one step, he leaves it behind. On the other hand, the many who study in order to fill their memory do not use the rungs of the ladder for climbing, but take them off and load themselves with them to take away, rejoicing at the increasing weight of the burden. They remain below forever, because they bear what should have bourne them.”
“The black church will accept anybody.”
“Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?”

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