"Let America realize that self-scrutiny is not treason. Self-examination is not disloyalty."

-- Richard Cushing

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“How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, September 1, 2004.
“On one hand, I kind of feel like I have unlimited options right now, and obviously that's not technically true, but when you're at this place where you're just kind of dreaming up stuff, your imagination is your limit. That's where I'm at, which is great, but ultimately I think you have to make these decisions to close off some options to yourself. I think things only get done when you say, "This is the one thing I'm doing," and you kind of kill the other ones in the meantime. So I haven't done that yet, I've got to figure that out.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?”
“If you have a Bible thatâ€™s falling apart, youâ€™ll have a life thatâ€™s not.”
“You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.”

Source : C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.71, HarperCollins UK
“Helen Weaverâ€™s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasnâ€™t there! This is the most graphic, honest, shameless and moving documentary of what the newly liberated women in cities got up toâ€“how they lived, loved and created. Who knew? It is time they did! And hereâ€™s how.”
“It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks.”
“The government did a lot of things to us in terms of sending pictures to my house. If I had to go to a school to give a speech and the sorority wanted to sign a song, they would send [a person] to my house and tell my wife that I had sex with this woman or that woman.It got to the point where my wife didn't know what to believe anymore, and the fact that I didn't have a job, I couldn't support my bills, the fact that I was getting ready to go through maybe a mental setback in terms of depression, we just had a tremendous amount of things on us.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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