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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

TUESDAY QUOTES

Yesterday I forgot about Tuesday quotes because I was just updating again after spring week, so I will post them today Wednesday just for this time.

"Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches."
-Harold Evans

"I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing."
-Ricky Martin

"There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype."
-Joan Chen

"I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force."
-Albert Enstein

"I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights."
-Bishop Desmond Tutu

"The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating."
-Cesar Chaves

"Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer for the barest necessities of life. We were taught under the old ethic that man's business on this earth was to look out for himself. That was the ethic of the jungle; the ethic of the wild beast. Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. Thousands of years ago the question was asked; ''Am I my brother's keeper?'' That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death."
1908 speech
-Eugene V. Debs

Finally quote of the day:Be who you are and say what you want, because those who mind don´t matter and those who matter don´t mind.

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