Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was the most Communist (and in the rather orthodox sense) of the Palestinian formations. I remember Edward once surprising me by saying, and apropos of nothing: 'Do you know something I have never done in my political career? I have never publicly criticized the Soviet Union. It 

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Frantz Fanon - Quotes

 Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are

presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new

evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is

extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it

is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize,

ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief. 

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Christopher Hitchens - Quotes

 I am sorry for those who have never had the experience of seeing the victory of a national liberation movement, and I feel cold contempt for those who jeer at it. 

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Paulo Freire - Quotes

 To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.  

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Paulo Freire - Quotes

 Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress. 

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Gregory Maguire - Quotes

 People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. 

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Paulo Freire - Quotes

 Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future. 

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Tony Kushner - Quotes

 I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free.



It would be...heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and...



Very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unemcumbered, into the morning. 

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Peter J. Carroll - Quotes

 It is a mistake to consider any belief more liberated than another. It is the possibility of change which is important. Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents. There is no freedom from duality on this plane of existence, but one may at least aspire to choice of duality. 

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Paulo Freire - Quotes

 The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. 

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Martin Luther King Jr. - Quotes

 Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. 

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Melvin Burgess - Quotes

 You can do anything you want. You don't believe me. You think, she's out of her head. Yeah, I'm out of my head- on being me. What are you on? On being them. You don't even know. I bet you were never given a chance to know. ....Listen. You can be anything you want to be. Be careful. It's a spell. It's magic. Listen to the words.... You are anything...everyone, anyone. ...You listen to them, teachers, parents, politicians. They're always saying, if you steal you're a thief, if you sleep aroung you're a slut, if you take drugs you're a junkie. They want to get inside your head and control you with their fear. ...Don't play their game. Nothing can touch you; you stay beautiful.  

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