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There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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The youth should come together to challenge the status quo. They must not give up.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.
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I am a very curious person; I’ll always ask: is this thing true, is it not true? And I use my own means to investigate and come to my conclusion.
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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you’re deprived of it.
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I have no money to give to you but I have ideas and organizational capacity.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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