"But I'm no hero. I had to keep my dirty little secret. The worst sin I committed was holding it in; letting the secret blacken me."

-- Julie Anne Peters

#Dirty Quotes #Hero Quotes #Secret Quotes

“As a twin, I operate with twin desires.”
“I don't want that to be the headline.”
“It is impossible not to recognise the Long March as one of the great triumphs of men against odds and men against nature. While the Red Army was unquestionably in forced retreat, its toughened veterans reached their planned objective with moral and political will as strong as ever... Their conviction had helped turn what might have been a terrible defeat into an arrival in triumph.”
“There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.”

Source : 1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY
“You have to know... What you have to know in all of this, through all of this, is that no matter how lost you are in this maze of hell and confusion, that in the end, I promise you, you will be found.”
“Our Land is alive, Esperanza...This whole valley breathes and lives...He picked up a handful of earth and studied it. Did you know that when you lie down on the land, you can feel it breathe? That you can feel its heart beating.”
“There is nothing more boring than a bored person.”
“One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking.”

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