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#1

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

tags: absence, loss

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#2

“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: inadequacy-of-words, mourning

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#3

“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: endurance, life, loss, love

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#4

“Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

tags: cage, hate

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#5

“...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

tags: child, children, damage, damaged, done, ever, forever, forty-nine, four, god, hand, heart, hoffman, kids, kill, last, left, life, love, never, pain, paul, things, true, undone

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#6

“Under the broken promises of superpowers and under the worlds indifference to spilled Arab blood.”
― Susan Abulhawa, Mornings in Jenin

tags: arab, blood, broken, promise

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#7

“We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken.”
― Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift Songbook: Guitar Recorded Versions

tags: broken, love, quote, taylor-swift

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#8

“Everyone gets broken. Everyone. Some grow stronger in those breaks. Others never recover.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

tags: broken, hurt, pain

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#9

“There’s a big difference, I discovered, between wanting to die and not wanting to live. When you want to die, you at least have a goal. When you don’t want to live, you’re really just empty.”
― Brian Hugh Warner

tags: death, depression, empty, horror, life

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#10

“i am against electronic books. they make real books obsolete, denying the poor and economically challenged freedom.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

tags: books, freedom, reading

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#11

“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.”
― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

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#12

“Behind closed doors, we're all the fat uncool kid.”
― Su-Mari Diedericks

tags: insecurity, truth-of-life, unpopular, unwanted

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#13

“JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

tags: jealousy

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#14

“The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.”
― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

tags: free-market, inequality

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#15

“Occupying the bottom end of the inequality ladder, and becoming a 'collateral victim' of a human action or a natural disaster, interact the way the opposite poles of magnets do: they tend to gravitate towards each other.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age

tags: inequality, social

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#16

“I think it's wrong that only one percent of the people should own ninety percent of the country.”
― Sally Wentworth, Summer Fire

tags: inequality, socialism

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#17

“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.

It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

tags: crimes, criminal-justice-system, cycle-of-violence, desperation, greed, homelessness, imprisonment, incarceration, jail, justice, poverty, prison, punishment, racism, retribution, unemployment

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#18

“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: activism, activist, adventures, belief, careers, challenges, character, character-building, choices, christ, compassion, courage, dreams, empathy, faith, fate, freedom, future, glee, goals, god, god-s-plan, happiness, homeless, hope, integrity, joy, leadership, life, life-missions, life-purpose, makes-sense, mental-disorders, messes, mistakes, morals, no-coincidences, no-ordinary-moments, nobody, novels, obstacles, past, pathways, plans, redemption, rescuers, scripts, signs, somebody, staying-positive, stories, storms, talents, tests, the-past, understanding, values

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#19

“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

tags: poverty

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#20

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
― Immanuel Kant

tags: contentment, poverty, riches

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#21

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings

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#22

“While there is a lower class, I am in it.
While there is a criminal element, I am of it.
While there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”
― Eugene Debs

tags: class, crime, freedom, poverty

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#23

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are
presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new
evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is
extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it
is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize,
ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

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#24

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
― Aristotle

tags: crime, poverty, revolution, society

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#25

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

tags: america, disgrace, inequality, love, poor

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#26

“The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.”
― Banksy, Wall and Piece

tags: blind-obedience, crimes, obedience, rebellion, rule-breaking, rules

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#27

“Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid.
You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation
at high speed with total clarity.”
― Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall

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#28

“There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
― Elizabeth Warren

tags: capitalism, greed, responsibility, socialism

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#29

“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his 'natural superiors,' and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, callous 'cash payment.' It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom—Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.

The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

tags: bourgeoisie, capitalism, communism, evils-of-capitalism, exploitation, free-trade

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#30

“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.”
― Eugene Debs

tags: aristocracy, capitalism, feudalism, inequality, justice, labor, poverty, wealth

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