Quotable quotes

[opinterph]

“We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist.”

― Barack Obama

 

[Thad1527]

"If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it." - Zora Neale Hurston

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.”

― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

 

[Alistair]

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing.”

― Jean Genet

 

[pornoboy]

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[snakeeater1]

George Carlin! A VERY smart man!…..

 

[opinterph]

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I'm looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling.”

― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

 

[Rand]

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[Kahaih]

/\ But, it's too easy for tyrants to have a thinker bumped off, these days, so let's not encourage any to come forth.

 

[opinterph]

“You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!”

― Kahlil Gibran

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”

― Paulo Freire

 

[Rand]

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[opinterph]

“It is easy for most of us to look back in time and praise those who fought for the right of others. The protests of history are much easier to accept than protests of the present.”

― Dave Connis, Suggested Reading