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"The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go."
"Over time you realize that some people just aren't worth it anymore."
"Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth - these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die."
"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves."
"People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave."
"He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap."
"People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does."
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
"I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."
"If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find."
"That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital."
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
"To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens."
"If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies."
"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
"You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution A time where there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it And now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built And the only way is going to be built is with extreme methods And I for one will join with anyone, don't care what color you are As long as you want change this miserable condition that exists on this earth"
"There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in."
"I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread."
"The people will believe what the media tells them they believe."
