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#1

“to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.”
― Ellen Bass

tags: acceptance, hope, life, love

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#2

“In the end, just three things matter:

How well we have lived
How well we have loved
How well we have learned to let go”
― Jack Kornfield

tags: inspirational, mindfulness

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#3

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
― John Adams, The Portable John Adams

tags: evidence, facts, forefather, passion

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#4

“It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.”
― Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics and Politics

tags: activism, civil-disobedience, good, patriotism, value, virtue

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#5

“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
― Howard Zinn

tags: activism, civil-disobedience, democracy, dissent, law, protest, truth-telling

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#6

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, civil-disobedience, dissent, protest

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#7

“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, civil-disobedience, dissent, protest

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#8

“If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth—certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

tags: civil-disobedience, dissent

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#9

“I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: civil-disobedience, government

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#10

“I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

tags: civil-disobedience, education, evil, good, humane, morality, rights, vegan

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#11

“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Non-violence in Peace and War 1942-49

tags: civil-disobedience, justice, non-violence, war

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#12

“When EVIL men make bad laws, righteous men disobey them."
Pastor Butch Paugh”
― Tarrin P. Lupo

tags: civil-disobedience, misattributed

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#13

“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: adaptation, life

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#14

“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.”
― Pat Miller, Willfully Ignorant

tags: historical-fiction

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#15

“in a world
full of
temporary things

you are
a perpetual
feeling.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: feelings, fleeting, forever, forever-love, hopeless-romantic, perpetual, poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, soulful, soulmates, temporary, valentine-s-day

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#16

“For it is up to you and me
to take solace
in nostalgia's arms

and our ability
to create
the everlasting
from fleeting moments.”
― Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest

tags: arms, comfort, everlasting, fleeting, fleeting-life, forever, life, life-lessons, moments, nostalgia, poetry, poetry-quotes, profound

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#17

“Tomorrow came
with the illusion of today
even more fleeting than yesterday

it came
like it always comes

and went
like it’s always gone

like a favorite song
in its final seconds

Tomorrow came and left
leaving nothing
nothing...
but a familiar
lingering
sense of loss behind.”
― Sanober Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest

tags: fleeting, lingering, loss, moments, poetry, poetry-quotes, time, time-passing, today, tomorrow, yesterday

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#18

“One clear moment, one of trance
One missed step, one perfect dance
One missed shot, one and only chance
Life is all...but one fleeting glance.”
― Sanober Khan

tags: dance, fleeting, glance, glimpse, indian-authors, life-and-living, life-is-short, life-quotes, moments, poems, poetry, poetry-quotes, trance

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#19

“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -”
― Heraclitus

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#20

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#21

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

tags: love, poetry

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#22

“Freedom lies in being bold.”
― Robert Frost

tags: boldness, courage, freedom

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#23

“The best way out is always through.”
― Robert Frost

tags: feelings, persistence, problems

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#24

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
― Robert Frost

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#25

“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”
― Robert Frost

tags: prayer

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#26

“I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.”
― Robert Frost

tags: disorganized, style-of-living

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#27

“I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to.”
― Leonard Peltier, Prison Writings

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#28

“Only one thing’s sadder than remembering you were once free, and that’s forgetting you were once free. ”
― Leonard Peltier

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#29

“Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.”
― Leonard F. Peltier, Prison Writings

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#30

“According to court records, during the siege at Wounded Knee, more than two hundred and fifty thousand rounds were fired at our people by U.S. marshalls, FBI agents, the tribal police, the GOONs, and white vigilantes. These boys weren't kidding. And neither were we.”
― Leonard Peltier, Prison Writings

tags: aim, american-indian-movement, civil-rights, native-americans, oppression

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