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“My God, these folks don't know how to love — that's why they love so easily.”

“Of course Celia shits! Who doesn't? And how much worse if she didn't.”

“The dead don't die. They look on and help.”

“The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.”

“It was in 1915 the old world ended.”

“Men fight for liberty, and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”

Resonant Thoughts

"No, I wasn’t very smart, this I knew, but I was beginning to think that maybe, just maybe, I was some kind of crazy-loco genius, burro genius. I mean, to have been able to hold on to my Spirit for thi…"

— Victor Villaseñor

Literature1940

#justice

"I celebrate that figure as an “outlaw.” That’s someone who lives in defiance of oppressive laws, and, in doing so, thrives against those strictures."

— John Rechy

Literature1931

#justice

"Narrated Anas ibn Malik: The Prophet said: Three things are the roots of faith: to refrain from a person who utters, "There is no god but Allah" and not to declare him unbeliever whatever sin he commi…"

— Prophet Muhammad ﷺ

Religion570–632

#justice

"He was just so respected in the industry. It's just horribly tragic. He was just a fine actor and a good person, so this is horribly sad and very unexpected."

— Heath Ledger

Entertainment1979–2008

#justice