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“Nothing's ever the same," she said. "Be it a second later or a hundred years. It's always churning and roiling. And people change as much as oceans.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“If you've never done anything wrong it's probably because you have never tried anything new.”
― Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
― Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
“She sometimes found herself standing in the barn watching her fowl pecking the seed, feeling happy until she realised she wasn’t.”
― The Forester's Daughter
― The Forester's Daughter
“There is nothing wrong with a traffic law which says you have to stop for a red light. But when a fire is raging, the fire truck goes right through that red light, and normal traffic had better get out of its way. Or, when a man is bleeding to death, the ambulance goes through those red lights at top speed.
There is a fire raging now for the Negroes and the poor of this society. They are living in tragic conditions because of the terrible economic injustices that keep them locked in as an "under-class," as the sociologists are now calling it. Disinherited people all over the world are bleeding to death from deep social and economic wounds. They need brigades of ambulance drivers who will have to ignore the red lights of the present system until the emergency is solved.”
― The Trumpet of Conscience
There is a fire raging now for the Negroes and the poor of this society. They are living in tragic conditions because of the terrible economic injustices that keep them locked in as an "under-class," as the sociologists are now calling it. Disinherited people all over the world are bleeding to death from deep social and economic wounds. They need brigades of ambulance drivers who will have to ignore the red lights of the present system until the emergency is solved.”
― The Trumpet of Conscience
“What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
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