Lee

“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Endurance,' he said. 'That's what takes courage. Decency among ourselves. That's where we must be strong. When they steal from us and try to humiliate us, the real shame is on themselves.”
― Elizabeth Laird, A Little Piece of Ground

“Unveiling this woman is revealing her beauty; it is baring her secret, breaking her resistance, making her avail­able for adventure. Hiding the face is also disguising a secret; it is also creating a world of mystery, of the hidden. In a confused way, the European experiences his relation with the Algerian woman at a highly complex level. There is in it the will to bring this woman within his reach, to make her a possible ob­ject of possession.

This woman who sees without being seen frustrates the colo­nizer. There is no reciprocity. She does not yield herself, does not give herself, does not offer herself.”
― Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism

“Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.”
― Karl Marx