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Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

Bertolt Brecht

The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread.
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Fall Rain Summer
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Art Mirror Reality
Who struggles can fail. Who doesn’t struggle has already failed!
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Diversity Justice Struggle
When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out “stop!” When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
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Become Doing Evil Invisible Suffering
If you fight you might lose, if you don’t you have already lost.
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Fighting Lost
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Each of us is the strongest one in his or her own skin. Characteristics should take off their hats to one another, instead of spitting in each other’s faces.
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Characteristics Each Face Spitting
Writers can’t write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.
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Thinking War Writing
Science knows only one commandment – contribute to science.
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Account Knows Science
Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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Bears Creating Earth
A theater without beer is just a museum
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Beer Museums Theater
He who speaks of enemies , himself is the enemy.
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Enemy Himself Speak
Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
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Mistake Moving Wisdom
When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.
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Common Folk Leader War
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
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Majority Purpose Shoulders

Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.

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