"Our freedom is sweet. It will be sweeter when we are all free."

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Bell Hooks

“I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.”
“Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.”
“When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.”
“You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach, those two ideas are not mutually exclusive. You can have great regard for law enforcement and still want them to be held to high standards.”

Source : "Jon Stewart To Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade: ‘F—k You’" by Catherine Taibi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2014.
“Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.”
“Trying to wage war on 23 million Americans who are obviously very committed to certain recreational activities is not going to be any more successful than Prohibition was.”
“Not only do our prayers please God, the Holy Spirit uses them to accomplish heavenâ€™s purpose on earth.”
“That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.”

Source : King v. Ginever, 6 T. R. 735, 1796.

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