"The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes."

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Mary Renault

#Determined Quotes

“If the world had two gods, it would surely go to ruin-this is the first premise. Now it is known that it has not gone to ruin-this is the second premise. From these premises the conclusion must of necessity follow, that is, the denial of two gods.”
“I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.”
“On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will, even as it nudges others to oblivion?”
“It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff.”

Source : "Goodbye Sam Cooke, Hello James Hunter". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. February 10, 2016.
“Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.”

Source : James H. Cone (1970). “A Black Theology of Liberation”, p.9, Orbis Books
“It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.”
“On Politics: When our people get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being our people.”
“If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.”

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