"The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally."

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Source : Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

Joanne Greenberg

#Secret Quotes #Allies Quotes #Mental Health Quotes

“I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.”
“My rhymes make niggas rebuild like water damage.”
“She hated their new nickname. It made them sound like deranged Barbie dolls.”
“Climb up the ladder! Climb up the ladder! Are you stupid?!”
“I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am a non-invasivist rather than a non-violentist. That is, I believe that an invaded people have the right to defend themselves by any means necessary. This includes putting ground glass or poison in the invaders' food, shooting at them from ambush, sabotage, the general strike, armed revolution, etc. It's up to the invaded to decide which of these techniques they will use. It's not up to some moralist to tell them which techniques are permissible.”
“I think the sad fact is, there's a long history in this country at looking at African-American as subhuman. And I think that's reflected in the fact that, when we have problems that really are problems of employment, that are really problems of mental health, that are really problems of drugs, our answer is the police.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“It is sunlight in modified form which turns all the windmills and water wheels and the machinery which they drive. It is the energy derived from coal and petroleum (fossil sunlight) which propels our steam and gas engines, our locomotives and automobiles. ... Food is simply sunlight in cold storage.”

Source : John Harvey Kellogg “The New Dietetics, What to Eat and How”, Рипол Классик
“It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.”

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