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    Howard Zinn
    “They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: guns, nonviolence, pacifism, poetry, poetry-love-spirituality, poets, violence, war-and-peace
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    Howard Zinn
    “Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.”
    ― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
    tags: constitution, democracy, government, justice, law-school, legal-system, subversion
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    Howard Zinn
    “Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.”
    ― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
    tags: education, moral-conflict
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    Howard Zinn
    “How can you have a war on terrorism while war itself is terrorism!”
    ― HOWARD ZINN
    tags: politics, relegion, trrorism
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    Howard Zinn
    “... the atmosphere of war brutalizes everyone involved, begets a fanaticism in which the original moral factor is buried at the bottom of a heap of atrocities committed by all sides.”
    ― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
    tags: fanaticism, war
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    Howard Zinn
    “Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil. . . .”
    ― Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
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    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling
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    Elie Wiesel
    “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, advocacy, protest
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    Bob Marley
    “Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.”
    ― Bob Marley, Bob Marley - Legend
    tags: activism, inspirational, protest, song-lyrics
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    George Washington
    “If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.”
    ― George Washington, The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799 Volume 39 (General Index O-Z List of Letters) - Leather Bound
    tags: defense, insult, peace, prosperity, war
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    George Washington
    “The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.”
    ― George Washington
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    George Washington
    “A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool.”
    ― George Washington
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    Mehek Bassi
    “Whatever I learned,
    Whatever I knew,
    Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew,
    Away in some dilemma,
    Always in some confusion,
    The purpose of this life,
    Seems like an illusion!”
    ― Mehek Bassi, Chained: Can you escape fate?
    tags: breakup, breakups, childhood, confusion, dilemma, experience, hurt, illusion, information, knowledge, life, love, love-story, lovers, memories, memory, pain, philosophy, separation, time
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Here too it’s masquerade, I find:
    As everywhere, the dance of mind.
    I grasped a lovely masked procession,
    And caught things from a horror show…
    I’d gladly settle for a false impression,
    If it would last a little longer, though.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: comfort, fake, false, illusion, impression, mask
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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    Seneca
    “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: common-people, corruption, organized-religion, useful
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    Michael Ben Zehabe
    “Being articulate is no guarantee of intelligence,” Zoe said. “I’m not doubting the value of education. I’m doubting its reach. Highly educated politicians still do stupid things. Anthony Weiner was educated; Mugabi was educated; Assad was educated; Mussolini was educated. For all their education, look at them.”
    ― Michael Benzehabe
    tags: anthony-weiter, assad, benzehabe, education, immigration, iran, israel, mispronounce, mossad, mugabi, mussolini, politician, unassimilated
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    Stephen Asbury
    “A gemba attitude means going to the source to check the facts to arrive at well-informed decisions”
    ― Stephen Asbury, Health & Safety, Environment and Quality Audits
    tags: facts-of-the-matter, facts-quotes, facts-wisdom
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: acceptance, contentment, raining
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Music is the universal language of mankind.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: music, poetry, power-of-music
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
    Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
    tags: inspiration, remembrance, starlight, stars
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun”
    ― Henry Wadworth Longfellow
    tags: love
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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. ”
    ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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